ABSTRACT
The chapter explores and problematizes creativity, musical thought, and the (re)presentation of place in a particular marginal context: popular music in Uruguay. It analyzes the musical discourse and practice in the song “Ciudad de la Plata” (City of Money) by Uruguayan singer-songwriter Fernando Cabrera. As in mass-mediated music generally, spatiotemporal relations are embedded in the different stages of creation, production, performance, storage (collection), and further dissemination of the song. In effect, the chapter looks at how the singer portrays the city of Montevideo and its soundscape as articulations of the social tensions across social sectors and in the distribution of musical resources.
