Música, espacio andino y “habitus de clase”: el caso del singular compositor argentino Rolando “Chivo” Valladares

Abstract

■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ABSTRACT: In spite of being considered as one of the greatest folklore composers of Argentina, the work and the thought of the Rolando Chivo Valladares (1918-2008) is little known. Considering the factors that had a bearing on his formation, this article examines his criticism of the concept of folklore, his questioning to the effect of the market on the musical reception, and his rapprochement to ancestral musical practices from the north of Argentina. His ideas are contrasted with those of other prominent folklore practitioners and researchers (his sister Leda, Atahualpa Yupanqui, and Augusto Raul Cortazar); then, his categories of tren- zado and despojamiento (plaiting and dispossession) are analyzed, because they highlight the suspension of the ideological schema of musician and poet required by the act of collaborative composition. In this way, this case would show an exception to the category of class habitus, proposed by Pierre Bourdieu, while it may be considered an expression of border thinking, in the sense that it proposes the conversion of the urban subject to Andean structures of feeling, through music. ■ ■ ■