Archive | 2019
DON RAMÓN RIVAS, UN MÚSICO POPULAR EN PROVINCIA EN EL CHILE DEL SIGLO XX
Abstract
espanolEl presente trabajo se centra en la figura del musico Ramon Rivas Valdebenito (1931-2004), de quien se revisa su practica y creacion musical en relacion a su contexto y rasgos personales. Su trayectoria vital es considerada en su doble condicion de interprete y compositor en relacion a su tiempo, lugar y condiciones sociales, culturales y tecnologicas que condicionaron tanto la practica de su oficio musical como la constitucion de su repertorio. Su caso tambien constituye una clave posible para comprender como un musico que opto por la vida en provincia, pudo integrarse a la vida musical regional, nacional e internacional en el campo de la musica popular aprovechando el desarrollo radial y fonografico de su epoca. Ademas, da cuenta de como interactuo en las diversas ciudades en las que residio en su doble condicion de musico y ciudadano. Finalmente considera el proceso de adaptacion de sus boleros en baladas a traves de los registros que en la decada de los 70 hicieran artistas como Los Angeles Negros, entre otros, que terminaron por proyectar sus canciones a otras latitudes, convirtiendo a nuestro sujeto en uno de los musicos populares exitosos menos conocido de nuestra historia musical. EnglishThis paper focuses on the figure of the musician Ramon Rivas Valdebenito (1931-2004), whose musical practice and creation is reviewed from his personal traits and context. His vital career is considered in his double condition of both interpreter and composer in relation to his time, place and social, cultural and technological conditions that determined the practice of his musical work as well as the constitution of his repertoire. His case also constitutes a possible key to understand how a musician who preferred a quieter life far from main cities, was able to integrate into the regional, national and international musical life in the field of popular music by taking advantage of the radio and phonographic development of his time. Furthermore, this paper speaks of how he interacted in the various cities where he lived in his dual status as a musician and citizen. Finally, we consider the process of adapting his boleros into ballads through the records made in the 70s by artists such as Los Angeles Negros, among others, who ended up projecting their songs to other latitudes, turning our subject into one of the least known successful popular musicians of our musical history.