Situated Music: a Case of Dialogue between Alterity and Semiotics

Abstract

This study intends to offer a particular look at situated music; which is to say, music with the mark of ownership starting from a case study: “Didar” a piece for the piano from the Argentine composer Susana Antón (1940). The work is examined from the perspective of cultural studies with tools from semiotics. The counterpoint between both approaches throws light upon the relationships between aesthetics and ideology, exotism and the affirmation of difference, identitary topoi and communicative and persuasive will from the rhetorical discourse.