Post-dictatorship music, art and culture: Women’s Uruguayan-style murga in Chile. Sound, party, identity and rebellion

Abstract

This article presents the arrival, installation and practice of the Uruguayan style Murga in Chile. From its beginnings in 2005 to the development it has had in recent years (2019), as a particularity it is presented with a marked emphasis on gender, consolidating the style and promoting a space for female participation; critical mass and cultural resistance that has been installed in the cultural scene in Santiago and Valparaíso. Methodologically, the structure of the text is adapted to the presentation format of the Murguero show. (Presentation, splash, cuplés and withdrawal) In this way, the questions that mobilize this research are: What are the projections of an exogenous theatrical music genre that adapts to our local reality? How does the hegemonic discourse to power come out to dispute? The findings in this article allow us to visualize, through the case of the female murga, the scope of the transcultural processes that are connected with the social processes in search of the vindication of rights.