Georgia State University ScholarWorks @ Georgia State University World Languages and Cultures Theses Department of World Languages and Cultures 11-28-2007 La Poesía Tanguera de Eladia Blázquez: De la Melancolía Tradicional a la Vanguardia Renovadora María Marta López Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.gsu.edu/mcl_theses Recommended Citation López, María Marta, "La Poesía Tanguera de Eladia Blázquez: De la Melancolía Tradicional a la Vanguardia Renovadora." Thesis, Georgia State University, 2007. https://scholarworks.gsu.edu/mcl_theses/2 This Thesis is brought to you for free and open access by the Department of World Languages and Cultures at ScholarWorks @ Georgia State University. It has been accepted for inclusion in World Languages and Cultures Theses by an authorized administrator of ScholarWorks @ Georgia State University. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. LA POESÍA TANGUERA DE ELADIA BLÁZQUEZ: DE LA MELANCOLÍA TRADICIONAL A LA VANGUARDIA RENOVADORA by MARÍA MARTA LÓPEZ Under the Direction of Elena del Río Parra ABSTRACT The purpose of this study is to explore and analyze the ars poetica in the work of Eladia Blázquez (1936-2005), and to appreciate to what extent it converges or separates detaches itself from the traditional tango lyrics. Due to her numerous pieces, she is the first and only woman to write both music and lyrics consistently, while proposing a different viewpoint in tone and themes in order to update them to current times. Among them, the major are Buenos Aires, life and identity. The researcher proposes that Blázquez nourished herself on the classics, recreating them while offering new expressive possibilities, shifting at times from their melancholic tone and the moaning sound of the bandoneón, tango’s soul-haunting instrument, to a more hopeful one.