Torrent chavela vargas de joven9/22/2023 Employing a framework that blends literary analysis with Performance Theory, Queer and Gender Studies, Dance, Ethnomusicology and Film Studies, I focus on how Tongolele, Tito Vasconcelos and Las Reinas Chulas use music, dance and drag aesthetics in their cabaret to challenge deeply entrenched definitions of mexicanidad, proliferated by Mexico’s Golden Age Cinema (1930-1960) and its on-screen idols. Hence, this dissertation examines models of subversive communication by mapping a genealogy of performance. Moreover, Mexican cabaret is a unique example of the nation’s tolerance of dissident voices artists have not faced violent oppression like in other Latin American countries such as Argentina or Chile. Since taking root in Mexico at the beginning of the twentieth century, cabaret has flourished by enabling artists to communicate socio-political critiques in overt and covert ways to their audiences.
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