Singer-Songwriters of Vallenato Music. Exploring the Feminine Body from the Feminine in a Masculine Universe

The research describes the representations of the female body made by the author-songwriters (singers, composers and performers of the instruments) of vallenata music in Valledupar, Cesar. The way in which these narratives question the traditional discourses that represent the female body and how they communicate their experiences of being / being in the world was examined. The objective was to analyze the representations of the female body made by the singer-songwriters of vallenata music. A qualitative, phenomenological study was carried out, in which ten in-depth interviews were conducted, structured, codified and classified according to four themes: beginnings in the vallenato, the feminine from the masculine gaze, the feminine from the feminine and (re) presenting the feminine body. For the analysis of the data, qualitative software NVIVO 11 for Mac was used, each topic was in turn classified in other subcategories. The analysis allowed to identify from the narrated experiences, five types of female bodies of the vallenata music songwriters: the escorted body, the disciplined body, the desire body, the asexual body, and the masculinized female body.