Análisis musemático: una aproximación a la conquistada de los Jaivas

Abstract

This research examines music as a cultural manifestation capable of transcending its sonic and aesthetic dimensions to become a means of constructing social, historical, and political meanings. Drawing on the relationship between music, memory, identity, and collective experience, the study seeks to understand how certain musical expressions acquire meaning within contexts marked by processes of domination, conflict, and the search for recognition. Drawing on the fields of the philosophy of music, semiotics, and aesthetics, and using the theories of Charles S. Peirce and Philip Tagg as points of reference, this study analyzes the song “La conquistada” by the Chilean band Los Jaivas. This piece was chosen due to the convergence of musical, poetic, and symbolic elements that allow us to interpret how a composition can represent and produce meanings linked to historical and cultural experience. Within this framework, the research engages with the artistic project, its resistant perspective, and its contribution to the development of Chilean rock in its progressive and psychedelic forms. Thus, this study aims to understand music not merely as an aesthetic experience, but as a form of expression and meaning closely tied to memory, identity, and the social dynamics of a community.