In this episode, la profe Sosa-Riddell interviews Emilia Parodi, a recent Argentinian immigrant to the United States and current Pierce College student. They discuss how the experiences of Emilia growing up with the songs and the history of “el rock nacional” (argentino). While Emilia was born 15 years after the end of the dictatorship in Argentina, she is still impacted and inspired by the power of “Rock en Español.”

Song Listing:

In this episode we heard Argentina's rock pioneer Los Gatos with their song La Balsa. We also listened to Charly Garcia’s “Los Dinosaurios.” In addition, we heard segments from “El Reino Del Reves” by Maria Elena Walsh and a fragment of “Porque no se van” by Chile’s Los Prisioneros y nos despedimos con un pedazito de “Mil Horas” performed by the students of the Miramonte music program. The song is originally from Los Abuelos de la Nada and Andres Calamaro.

Original songs played in our episodes are included in our Podcast Playlist. Make sure to check it out as new songs are included weekly during the summer 23.

Episode Four Bibliography. Books and Articles for further reading and research:

—Alabarces, Pablo. Entre gatos y violadores: el rock nacional en la cultura argentina. Vol. 3. Ediciones Colihue SRL, 1993.

—Favoretto, Mara. "Charly García's allegories as counter-discourse." Confluencia (2012): 61-74.

—Favoretto, Mara. "Brothers in rock: Argentine and British rock music during the Malvinas/Falklands War." The Bloomsbury handbook of popular music and social class (2020): 291-313.

—Inchaurrondo, Nicolás. "Charly García: dictadura vs democracia." Primera Generación (2019).

—O'Brien, Michael S. "Cómo Vino la Mano: Orígenes del Rock Argentino. By Miguel Grinberg. Buenos Aires: Gourmet Musical Ediciones, 2008 (4th revised and expanded edn).

—Robben, Antonius CGM. "How traumatized societies remember: The aftermath of Argentina's dirty war." Cultural Critique (2005): 120-164.

—Trolliet, Ana Sanchez. "‘Buenos Aires beat’: a topography of rock culture in Buenos Aires, 1965–1970." Urban History 41, no. 3 (2014): 517-536.

—Trolliet, Ana Sanchez. "" MAKING LOVE IN THE KITCHEN": WOMEN, DOMESTIC SPACE AND ROCK CULTURE IN THE EARLY EIGHTIES/" Haciendo el amor en la cocina": mujeres, espacio domestico y cultura rock en los tempranos ochenta/" FAZENDO AMOR NA COZINHA": MULHERES, ESPACO DOMESTICO E CULTURA DO ROCK NO INICIO DA DECADA DE OITENTA." Cuadernos de Musica, Artes Visuales y Artes Escenicas 13, no. 1 (2018): 85-103.

—Vila, Pablo. "Rock nacional and Dictatorship in Argentina." Popular music 6, no. 2 (1987): 129-148.

—Wilson, Timothy, and Mara Favoretto. "Making the “Disappeared” Visible in Argentine Rock." Lied und populäre Kultur/Song and Popular Culture 60 (2015): 351-364.