Sounds of death: Los Tigres del norte, Café Tacuba & Alejandro Fernández. Gendered violence, pop music and capitalist realism in Mexico

Abstract

My goal in this article is to reflect on the gendered conceptual contents of some popular music productions in contemporary Mexico, whose contents deploy kinds of gendered representation and violence against women. I follow the premise that the narratives inside that music genre get a good reception in the so-called real capitalism, a system of regulation of social life that places violence in an unavoidable manner as a form of collective continuous concrete mediation that, in the broadest context of the cultural turn and from the feminist insight, is capable of revealing a phenomenon that sets women up as a conducive object for this sociopolitical practice.