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The Militant Song Movement in Latin America - Chile, Uruguay, and Argentina (Paperback)
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The Militant Song Movement in Latin America - Chile, Uruguay, and Argentina (Paperback)
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Latin America in the 1960s and 1970s underwent a profound and often
violent process of social change. From the Cuban Revolution to the
massive guerrilla movements in Argentina, Uruguay, Peru, Colombia,
and most of Central America, to the democratic socialist experiment
of Allende in Chile, to the increased popularity of
socialist-oriented parties in Uruguay, or para-socialist movements,
such as the Juventud Peronista in Argentina, the idea of social
change was in the air. Although this topic has been explored from a
political and social point of view, there is an aspect that has
remained fairly unexplored. The cultural-and especially
musical-dimension of this movement, so vital in order to comprehend
the extent of its emotional appeal, has not been fully documented.
Without an account of how music was pervasively used in the
construction of the emotional components that always accompany
political action, any explanation of what occurred in Latin America
during that period will be always partial. This book is an initial
attempt to overcome this deficit. In this collection of essays, we
examine the history of the militant song movement in Chile,
Uruguay, and Argentina at the peak of its popularity (from the
mid-1960s to the coup d'etats in the mid-1970s), considering their
different political stances and musical deportments. Throughout the
book, the contribution of the most important musicians of the
movement (Violeta Parra, Victor Jara, Patricio Manns, Quilapayun,
Inti-Illimani, etc., in Chile; Daniel Viglietti, Alfredo Zitarrosa,
Los Olimarenos, etc., in Uruguay; Atahualpa Yupanqui, Horacio
Guarany, Mercedes Sosa, Marian Farias Gomez, Armando Tejada Gomez,
Cesar Isella, Victor Heredia, Los Trovadores, etc., in Argentina)
are highlighted; and some of the most important conceptual extended
oeuvres of the period (called "cantatas") are analyzed (such as "La
Cantata Popular Santa Maria de Iquique" in the Chilean case and
"Montoneros" in the Argentine case). The contributors to the
collection deal with the complex relationship that the aesthetic of
the movement established between the political content of the
lyrics and the musical and performative aspects of the most popular
songs of the period.
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