The Chilean Cantora

Name: The Chilean Cantora
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Women Music Poets in Latin American Post-Colonial Culture

María Bernardita Batlle (King’s College London)

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Cambridge University Press
14 May 2026

Theory of music & musicology; Individual composers & musicians, bands & groups; Poetry anthologies; National liberation & independence, post-colonialism; Feminism & feminist theory

Series: Elements in Women in Music

This Element discusses the figure of the cantora – or woman music poet – and the development of her artistic activity in a context of post-colonial paradigms in Chilean and Latin American societies. Through a historical overview of this multifaceted concept, alongside gender construction in colonial Latin America, this Element offers insights on how the figure of the cantora developed in the confluence between discrimination against festive popular culture and the restrictions imposed on women in a context of an inherited patriarchal order. Moreover, it examines the embodiment of the cantora archetype within the contemporary urban folkloric scene in Chile as a performative exercise of identity construction that is framed in a process of cultural resistance. Revealing how contemporary cantoras are continuing the legacy of their predecessors has become especially relevant at the time of writing in 2020–22, amidst a wave of political protests against long-standing social disparities in Chile.

By: María Bernardita Batlle (King’s College London)
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Weight: 131g
ISBN: 9781108995269
ISBN 10: 1108995268
Series: Elements in Women in Music
Pages: 80
Publication Date: 14 May 2026
Audience: College/higher education , Further / Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

1. Introduction; 2. Eurocentrism and patriarchy in the Hispanic American colonisation process; 3. Gender construction in colonised Latin America and the emergence and development of the Chilean Cantora; 4. Chilean contemporary urban Cantoras; Conclusions; Bibliography.