La poesía rock en la Argentina postdictatorial: un análisis de la producción discursiva en la década de 1980.El libro de Lucas R. Berone estudia la transformación del rock argentino durante la transición a la democracia en la década de 1980. Analiza las letras y los álbumes de un grupo diverso de artistas de esa época, centrándose en una nueva forma de crear discurso que Berone denomina la «gramática del sujeto incógnito» . Esta «gramática» enfatiza lo individual y lo presente, marcando un cambio significativo con respecto al tradicional «rock nacional» contracultural y provocando reacciones críticas por parte de los líderes anteriores del movimiento.

This book is a historical and discursive study of rock poetry produced in Argentina, during the “transition to democracy,” in the 1980s. Lucas R. Berone analyzes the lyrics and albums of a heterogeneous group of Argentine rock artists and bands, who began their careers at that time, to demonstrate the emergence and functioning of a new grammar of discursive production, he terms the “grammar of the incognitus (or hidden) subject.” This grammar is a very specific and distinct way of elaborating the enunciative relationship between the artist and his audience when compared to the traditional countercultural rock discourse. The author asserts that the new discursive grammar, focused on the singularity of the present and the “self,” will produce the last important revolution in the tradition of the so-called “rock nacional,” motivating critical responses in the leaders of the movement.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1. About Rock, Politics, and Literature

Chapter 2. Methodological Considerations

Chapter 3. The First Cases. A New Orthodoxy is Born, at Present and in the First Person

Chapter 4. Towards a New Production Grammar: Constitution of the Incognitus Subject

Chapter 5. The Discourses / the Questions of the Founding Fathers

Chapter 6. Discourses / Responses of Resistance and Counter-Hegemony