The Cuban Songbook Between the Literate and the Popular: “La cleptómana” by Acosta and Luna Compared to “La cocainómana” by Matamoros

Authors

  • Jorge Feble University of North Florida

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15648/cl.23.2016.4

Abstract

This study claims that “La cocainómana”, a son composed by Miguel Matamoros for his trio in the early 1930s, is inspired at least partly on “La cleptómana”, a ro- mantic song by Manuel Luna, which in turn, imitates Agustin Acosta’s epono- mous sonnet included in his book of poems Ala (1915). “La cleptómana”, a key song of the new and old Cuban bal- lads, reflect the misogynous romantic- modernist conventional pruritus based on the thief of hearts. I argue that this element of the Cuban songbook is the result of the elegant considerations of intellectuals despite the popular origin of many of the players and songwrit- ers. To reach this conclusion, this paper draws on the ideas of music lover such as Frances Aparicio, Alejo Carpentier, Ned Sublette, Tony Evora, Cristobal Diaz Ayala, Robin Moore, as well as the theo- ries developed by Bajtin, Frances Apari- cio, Raphael Dalleo y Angel Rama.

 

Keywords: Poem-song, Ballad, Son, Popular ar- chive, Performance.

How to Cite

Feble, J. (2016). The Cuban Songbook Between the Literate and the Popular: “La cleptómana” by Acosta and Luna Compared to “La cocainómana” by Matamoros. Cuadernos De Literatura Del Caribe E Hispanoamérica, (23), 59–81. https://doi.org/10.15648/cl.23.2016.4

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Published

2016-11-24