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¡Qué lejos estoy del suelo donde he nacido! Canciones nostálgicas: migración interna, comedia ranchera y nacionalismo

Espinales Correa, Tania
http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2769-6426
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1658414140152979

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2022, Doctor of Philosophy, Ohio State University, Spanish and Portuguese.
This dissertation looks at nostalgic songs written in Mexico during the first half of the 20th century, with the purpose of reflecting on the origin of these nostalgic expressions, describing the characteristics and transformations that the nostalgic repertoire undergoes over time, as well as understanding the role that nostalgia had in the generation of the sense of belonging to different communities, including the imagined community. Through an interdisciplinary analysis, I observe and describe the poetic, musical and nostalgic characteristics of the corpus, in relation to the development of the migratory, cultural, and socio-political context of Mexico during the first half of the 20th century. I argue that it is possible to observe three major phases of the nostalgic musical repertoire written during the first half of the 20th century, which I have named: modern nostalgia, nostalgia ranchera, and national nostalgia. The repertoire of modern nostalgia is testimony and memory of internal migration and the emotions caused by this migratory displacement. The songs of this phase were characterized by their musical and literary heterogeneity and by expressing longing for abandoned lands due to rural-urban migration caused by the project of national modernization. The repertoire of nostalgic songs was used in comedia ranchera films, for which it was closely linked to the nationalist ideology of mestizaje and is usually considered as canciones rancheras. I argue that in the adaptation of nostalgic songs to the comedia ranchera, the longing, previously felt for the yearned-native lands, was transferred to the cinematographic locus of Mexicanness "el rancho". In addition, these songs were characterized by the tendency to homogenize their musical elements. The nostalgic expression took a turn in the 1940s when new cinematographic and ideological influences compelled composers to create nostalgic songs, whose object of emotion was the nation. In my dissertation I demonstrate that the nostalgic musical compositions made possible the generation of different communities during the first half of the 20th century: the modern nostalgia songs, through the sharing of emotions caused by the rural-urban migratory experience; the nostalgia ranchera songs, by enabling individuals to imagine themselves as a result of the idealized national past; and the national nostalgia songs, by allowing listeners to define themselves as part of the imagined national community.
Laura Podalsky (Advisor)
Ana Puga (Committee Member)
Ignacio Corona (Advisor)
201 p.
Ethnic Studies; Film Studies; Foreign Language; Hispanic American Studies; Language Arts; Latin American Literature; Latin American Studies; Literature; Music
Nostalgia, Mexico, Mexican songs, Mexican music, nostalgic Mexican songs, internal Mexican migration, internal Mexican migration songs, internal migration and nostalgia, comedia ranchera and nostalgia, nationalism and nostalgia, internal migration and songs, comedia ranchera and songs, nationalism and songs, canciones nostálgicas mexicanas

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  • Espinales Correa, T. (2022). ¡Qué lejos estoy del suelo donde he nacido! Canciones nostálgicas: migración interna, comedia ranchera y nacionalismo [Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1658414140152979

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  • Espinales Correa, Tania. ¡Qué lejos estoy del suelo donde he nacido! Canciones nostálgicas: migración interna, comedia ranchera y nacionalismo . 2022. Ohio State University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1658414140152979.

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  • Espinales Correa, Tania. "¡Qué lejos estoy del suelo donde he nacido! Canciones nostálgicas: migración interna, comedia ranchera y nacionalismo ." Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University, 2022. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1658414140152979

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