An Approach to the “Cuecas Chilotas” from Verbal Art

Abstract

Our object of study the are the marks of orality present in “cuecas chilotas” executed in contexts of oral tradition and in contexts mediated by the artistic field of folklore. As a hypothesis we maintain that the cuecas executed in enunciation contexts of oral tradition constitute an open expression of verbal art in which the composition occurs in the execution, configuring itself as an instance of local communication while in the mediated cuecas the texts are fixed and that serve as a basis for new interpretations, which tends to make invisible the relevance of the verbal art that also inhabits them. We identify a set of orality marks whose intertextual density is historically connected with modes of speech and intertextual traces prior to the 19th century, while observing the need to revisit genres approached descriptively as dance-musical expressions, making visible the verbal dimension present in them, discussing the notion of “cueca chilota” as understood in common sense.