MÚSICA E MÚSICOS NA TRÍPLICE FRONTEIRA (BRASIL, ARGENTINA, PARAGUAI)

Abstract

This article aims at raising some questions concerning the Triplice Fronteira, thetriple border composed by the towns of Foz de Iguazu in Brazil, Ciudad Del Leste inParaguay and Puerto Iguazu in Argentina. The article analyses two musicians’ interviewsabout their work in those borders: the Paraguayan harpist Casemiro Pinto, whose artisticperformance takes place in Foz do Iguazu and the composer Braulio Toledo, known asCaraicho Toledo, who performs in the border of the Argentinean town of Missiones. Byanalyzing their musical practice, the article leads to the perception that other borders,different from those delimited by the geopolitical division between countries, may be established.In fact, in those musicians’ cases, both the idea of the border as a space for mutualcollaboration and fluidity of unlimited cultural exchanges and the conception of border as anarea for the sheer expression of conflicts and confronts are discharged. The co-existence of the diverse times in the building of those countries borders facilitates the understanding ofperiods of generalized silence imposed by their dictatorship systems, making the symbolicborder questions be moved torwards the inland of the nations.