Not often do you stay in your seat to read every name in the end credits of a film. I wasn’t looking out for a friend’s or a well-known producer’s letters, checking for that cameo title, or waking... Read Article
For years Chilean rapper Ana Tijoux has forged a reputation as a fierce hip hop MC with a burning desire to change the world. Now she is expressing herself in new ways. Tijoux’s outspoken feminism and anti-capitalism have... Read Article
Nobody is strange to the fact that Ana Tijoux‘s music is very political. Ever since her tenure in Makiza and the “En Paro” track they made with Epicentro, she has defended the mapuche, the desaparecidos and now her fight is also... Read Article
Musicians from past generations often continue to inspire and guide us in the present, sometimes even many years after their passing. So it is with the Chilean folk singer Victor Jara, a visionary poet who realised the power... Read Article
Winter in the Southern Hemisphere is the time of the year when Chile awakens to popular uprisings, with university occupations and student protests common through these coming months. Gaining worldwide recognition in 2011, the Chilean student movement has never stopped.... Read Article
The songs of Chilean rapper Ana Tijoux are more than just that. They are weapons of equality, defiance and peace. Tracks like “1977”, “Shock”, and more recently, “Somos Sur” and “Antipatriarca”, have become songs of protest and revolution,... Read Article
Music, Politics, and Nationalism in Latin America looks at how culture, specifically folk music – música típica (typical music), neofolclore (new folklore) and nueva canción – was appropriated for the purposes of politics, propaganda, patriotism and national identity.... Read Article
Manuel García is an artist that has never shied away from change. In his first album, Pánico, the young troubadour drew comparisons to the legendary Chilean Víctor Jara and to the father of Nueva Trova Silvío Rodriguez. García’s... Read Article
If the Mapuche people are known at all outside Chile, it is as the fierce Araucanian warriors that managed to repel Spanish and Chilean attempts to colonize their homeland until the 1880s. (The terms “Araucanian” and “Mapuche” are... Read Article
In the history of Latin American culture there are few figures as important as Victor Jara. Not only was he a great singer/songwriter – helping to define nueva canción – but he was an important theatre director too.... Read Article
Recordar, to remember, is a bold statement. In a period, which has lost and is continuously losing its tutelary deities, with no replacements appearing on the horizon, to recall and reinterpret the meaningful voices of South American nueva... Read Article
For anyone interested in learning more about the Pinochet years in Chile, there are a whole host of documentaries, spanning the early stages of the dictatorship to the modern day, which dissect and examine distinct aspects of the... Read Article
