Abstract

MONROY CASILLAS, Ilihutsy. Jacobo Dalevuelta and Carlos González’s Chinacos. The Song of Victory, a nationalist cultural artifact, 1927. Sig. his [online]. 2020, vol.22, n.44, pp.112-145.  Epub Aug 01, 2022. ISSN 1665-4420.

A working class theater play: The Song of Victory. The Chinaca Scene in 1867 presents the moment a chinaco group in Michoacan receive the news of the republican triumph. Jacobo Dalevuelta (writer) and Carlos González (painter and artistic director) used the historic reason to create a nationalist cultural artifact. A unique representation composed of a script and images was carried out on stage at the National Stadium on May 5, 1927. In the staging, a type of Chinaco participated which expressed a Mexican identity in reflection, emerging from an eclectic mix of various modern and nationalist proposals as evidence of the revolutionary period and of a world in crisis in formation and perspective of the artists.

Keywords : working class theater; SEP; civic celebrations; school festivals; charrería.