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“Singers (1941–1982)” examines Argentine popular songs about the Falklands/Malvinas Islands through a systematic analysis of previously unexplored sources: the musical works registry of the Argentine Society of Authors and Composers (SADAIC) from its foundation until 1982. While has focused largely on songs produced after the war, this chapter turns to compositions written before 1982, when military action remained an imagined possibility rather than an immediate reality. Reading song lyrics as historical sources, the chapter shows how popular music articulated an “emotional community” that, through diverse tones and registers reinforced the belief that “the Malvinas were, are, and will be Argentine.” Expressed through an art form accessible to broad audiences beyond intellectual or economic elites, these songs projected a forward-looking vision of sovereignty reather than a retrospective memory of loss. The chapter argues that this repertoire sustained a latent fantasy of recovery helping to explain the widespread popular support for the 1982 invasion, despite the military regime’s deep economic and political crises.
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