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blacknesses
african american politics freedom songs
negritudes
política afroamericana
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Este artículo propone exponer las formas en que las freedom songs, un género musical afroamericano característico de los procesos de lucha de los años sesentas del siglo XX, fueron producidas y puestas a circular. Además se pretende comprender en qué sentidos las valoraciones, conflictos y tensiones que se generaron en torno a ellas, indican ambivalencias y complejidades, no sólo en las relaciones entre música negra y política, sino en los discursos de la negritud en Estados Unidos. A partir de testimonios de referentes y activistas de las organizaciones políticas más relevantes del período (sea del Movimiento por los Derechos Civiles como del Black Power) y de protagonistas de las experiencias de producción musical (desde colectivos de cantantes a bandas) ligados diversamente a dichas organizaciones, se explorará la hipótesis, alternativa a ciertas perspectivas consolidadas, que las freedom songs no fueron traducidas automáticamente, o aceptadas sin discusión, como recurso político afroamericano y que, cuando fueron utilizadas, sus sentidos no fueron unívocos. El hecho que las freedom songs no fueran consideradas de igual forma por sus productores y por las organizaciones políticas permite pensar en una articulación entre política, música e identidades racializadas menos homogénea que la que ciertas narrativas políticas e historiográficas proveen, en relación a los vínculos entre negritud y música negra durante los años sesentas en Estados Unidos.
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