Fiction, truth, lies: Short story of a christmas and boxing song in Tierra del Fuego (Late 19th century) [Ficción, verdad, mentira: Breve historia de una canción de navidad y boxeo en Tierra Del Fuego y El Mundo (Fines del siglo XIX)]

This article presents a popular song which situates its narrative in Tierra del Fuego during the second half of the nineteenth century. The vectors of conditions of possibility and historiographic veracity of the sung story for apprehending the social experiences of the colonial space are analyzed. As a hypothesis, we argue that the global circulation of popular music allows the accumulation and transformation of misleading experiences within the same original set of information.