Pablo Garrido y su defensa de los derechos laborales de los músicos en Chile (1932-1940)

Eileen Karmy

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Pablo Garrido’s advocacy of musicians’ labor rights in Chile (1932-1940)

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Eileen Karmy Universidad de Playa Ancha https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4174-9694

Vol. 75 No. 236 (2021): Julio - Diciembre

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Abstract

Through the prism of musical work, this article analyses Pablo Garrido’s contribution to musicians’ unions in Chile during the nineteen-thirties. I argue that the perspective of musical labour allows understanding an eclectic musician such as Garrido in a comprehensive way, rather than isolated. Prior scholarship has studied his contribution to different genres rather than considering him as a musical worker. By analysing Garrido’s newspaper articles, I identify the main problems Chilean working musicians suffered and his proposals to overcome them. All these resulted in the First Musicians’ Congress in 1940. I conclude by highlighting the difficulty of defining the musical work and emphasising the need to understand musicians’ two-sided identity as labourers and artists in a perennial tension.

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Pablo Garrido , music workers , musicians’ unions , music guild , Congress , art and labour , music in Chile , 20th century music

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Karmy, E. (2021). Pablo Garrido’s advocacy of musicians’ labor rights in Chile (1932-1940). Revista Musical Chilena, 75(236), pp. 98 – 118. Retrieved from https://revistamusicalchilena.uchile.cl/index.php/RMCH/article/view/59178