Analysis of the family system depicted in the song El gran varón. Song as an educational resource in higher education

Abstract

Songs constitute an important source for the dissemination of ideas and social elements of greater representation, since its development is intertwined to each culture’s economic, social and historic conditions. The aim of this paper is to identify how familial interactions during the different phases of a family’s life cycle, as well as adjustment to a sexual model detached from the norm, are projected through songs. The song “El gran varón” was analyzed from a systemic perspective, noting that, throughout the song’s narrative, the protagonists are part of a family with an authoritarian, traditional parenting style, attached to reality assumptions of a community. Song analysis is recommended as a didactic element in the teaching-learning process of several systemic theoretical notions in higher education.