The urban cueca, a tradition in constant movement generational analysis from its forms of transmission

Abstract

This article is about the question of: how are the social imaginaries of urban cueca’s tradition transmitted to the cuequeros of the Santiago scene? I propose a qualitative approach using the techniques of participant observation and in-depth interviews with key actors of the scene. In addition, I develop the concepts of social imaginary, tradition, convention and generation. The text is structured as follows: a first section on cueca as a collective practice, a second section on the ways of transmission of imaginaries, in the third section I propose a generational perspective with emphasis on the idea of
repertoire, in the fourth section I refer specifically to the phenomenon of women in the cueca scene, and I finish with the conclusions proposing an answer to the main question.