Interpreting Repressive and Economic Threats: Música contestataria and Collective Resistance in Central America
Paul Almeida,
Luis Rubén González Márquez
Abstract:Repressive and economic threats drive much of the popular mobilization in Central America, but those conditions need to be articulated to publics in a manner that emphasizes the need for collective action to ameliorate worsening harms. Examination of protest songs in both periods of heightened state repression (1970–1990) and heightened economic threats (1990–present) in Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua demonstrates that musicians and cultural producers actively construct lyrics and … Show more
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