2023-07-29 07:54:32
Al taco is a book full of rock.
Rock made by women since the 50s, when this new rhythm landed in Argentina, and immediately found an echo in female voices who interpreted it, recorded it and made a generation of young people dance who understood what that fury was. There is Estela Raval or Olga Lee, at the beginning of everything, recording a version of “Rock Around The Clock”, one of the first rock songs to be recorded in our country.
Rock made by women in the early 60s, when Mery Mitchell sang her overwhelming “Soy Dinamita”, and the first vocal groups made up of women were formed, such as Las Mosquitas, dressed in little outfits copied from those of the Beatles.
Al taco is a book full of rock and celebrations, rediscoveries, disobedience.
Rock made by women when a new countercultural movement began to be born in the mid-60s and there was Susana Jury singing in La Cueva, at a time when jazz, beat, and rock still coincided in that place; The first female singer-songwriters began to emerge, who would record their albums at the end of the decade and throughout the 70s, dealing with police repression, which in addition to persecuting young men with long hair, would also persecute young women with short skirts. or any other body aesthetic that expressed rebellion.
Rockers from the 80s opening new paths between darkness and the arrival of democracy, which brought new slogans, lyrics and sounds and which are going to transform spaces into a multiplicity of styles. So from pop, rock, heavy metal, punk and blues, gender themes find someone to sing for them. The first punk or heavy metal bands made up of women are being formed there; the theatrical rock artists who turn freedom into music, a Luna Park is filled with a band of women who ironize about all the mandates, they talk about the love between two women in a song that is heard in every house, songs made are born by women who are classics today. One that we all know.
Rockers from the 90s and their thousands of ways to confirm that, in bands or soloists, as singers, instrumentalists, composers or choristers, they were taking over a scene that was waiting to mutate with them. And other themes and other ways of organizing appear. New spaces arise where now there are hundreds of voices that are heard in other circuits, on other edges.
Through the 350 pages that the book has, an investigation that took 6 years, with more than 100 interviews with the protagonists of this story, the genealogy of rock made by Argentine women until the end of the 20th century is reconstructed, compiling as much proper names and individual routes, as information about women as a social group.
They also kicked hard years, this woman’s legs, sing the Blacanblus, and of course yes: the place of women in Argentine rock is neither more nor less than having built, together with their male peers, a history of more than 60 years, a present and a future. With the passion to the taco.
*Author. The book “Al Taco, history of Argentine rock made by women (1954-1999)”, by Carolina Santos, Gabriela Cei and Silvia Arcidiácono, had the collaboration of journalists Verónica Tossounian and Victor Tapia, the review and critical reading of the ethnomusicologist Mercedes Liska, and anthropologist Florencia López. It is presented on August 3, at Niceto Bar, at 8:00 p.m., with Lupita Rolón as moderator, and the live shows of Lorena Mayol and Sol Bassa.
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