El cancionero insurgente del movimiento zapatista en Chiapas. Ensayo de análisis sociocrítico

Abstract

The article begins be asking why working class struggles always create their own insurgent poetics and, on the basis of this concern, analyzes a corpus of insurgent songs composed in the inner and peripheral circles of the neo-Zapatista movement in Chiapas from a socio-critical point of view. The authors conclude that the principal function of this type of collections of political songs is to raise the ideology of a movement to the dignity of oral expression, which transfigures it, lending it figurativeness, emotional tonality and rhythmic-musical sonority. Oral expression is understood here, in accordance with Meshonnic, as the primacy of rhythm and prosody in enunciation aver merely spoken or written discourse.