Diversidad en percepciones de la problemática social en el continente americano: cruzando fronteras mediante composiciones musicales

Abstract

This article analyzes songs from different regions of the American conti- nent that were written at the end of the decade of the 80s by representa- tive composers of Argentina, Costa Rica and the United States. These texts, products of popular culture, are analyzed as poems. Therefore, tex- tual strategies from comparative literature as well as premises from cul- tural studies are used in this study. By means of this theoretical frame, one could visualize interesting similarities and important differences in these texts from diverse historical, political and social contexts of the selected countries.