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Actitud decolonial, linajes y saberes otros en la música y las letras de Los Jaivas

2022; University of Texas Press; Volume: 43; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.7560/lamr43101

1536-0199

Israel Holas Allimant, Sergio Holas,

Migration, Education, Indigenous Social Dynamics

This article proposes a decolonial reading of the rock music produced by Los Jaivas in Chile in the late 1960s and early 1970s by putting it in conversation with Rodolfo Kusch’s work on identity, Walter Mignolo’s insights on decolonial aesthesis, and Nelson Maldonado-Torres’s notion of decolonial attitude. By highlighting Indigenous melodies, rhythms, stories, memories, and experiences in the rock genre, Los Jaivas made visible an Andean and southern lineage of the Chilean people—one with Andean roots and not exclusively European ones, as imagined by Chile’s modern institutions. The music produced by Los Jaivas emphasizes a decolonial attitude toward preserving Indigenous values as an integral part of the way of life of for generations of Chileans.