Date of Submission

Spring 2024

Academic Program

Foreign Languages, Cultures, and Literatures

Project Advisor 1

Nicole Caso

Abstract/Artist's Statement

The renditions of the songs “Historia de un amor” and “Cuando vuelva a tu lado”, recorded by Eydie Gormé and Los Panchos in the album Amor, are cultural products that represent the postmodern identitarian crisis at the core of Latinx immigration to the United States. The literary, musical, and interpretive elements that are on display within each song, function in unison to construct a culturally unifying product that might serve as a coping mechanism for the Latinx communities in exile. Through the characterization of the different conflicting desires at the heart of each song’s narrative voice, which embodies the Latinx community, empathizes and affirms the complicated question of identity experienced by those who were displaced from their patria. The poetry in the songs rely on the incompatibility of desires that are present within a postmodernist subject. The tension between the negative and positive feelings towards the object of desire mirrors the same nuanced relationship maintained by Latinx immigrants towards their place of origin. This is compounded with the use of harmonic techniques that express the same lack of catharsis possibly endured by expatriates from Latin American countries. In the end, the result is a therapeutic product that embodies and responds to the question of Latinx diasporic identity.

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