Victor Jara
Getting To Know Places Through Music: An Interview with Ana Tijoux
For years Chilean rapper Ana Tijoux has forged a reputation as a fierce hip hop MC with a burning desire... Read Article
Ana Tijoux Covers Victor Jara To Commemorate Chile’s September 11th
Nobody is strange to the fact that Ana Tijoux‘s music is very political. Ever since her tenure in Makiza and the... Read Article
The Ghost of Victor Jara: A Beat Tape by Agent of Change
Musicians from past generations often continue to inspire and guide us in the present, sometimes even many years after their... Read Article
Top 10 Chilean Protest Songs
Winter in the Southern Hemisphere is the time of the year when Chile awakens to popular uprisings, with university occupations and student... Read Article
Ana Tijoux’s Top Ten Songs of Protest
The songs of Chilean rapper Ana Tijoux are more than just that. They are weapons of equality, defiance and peace.... Read Article
Music, Politics, and Nationalism in Latin America: Chile During the Cold War Era by Jedrek Mularksi
Music, Politics, and Nationalism in Latin America looks at how culture, specifically folk music – música típica (typical music), neofolclore... Read Article
REVIEW Manuel Garcia – Retrato Iluminado
Manuel García is an artist that has never shied away from change. In his first album, Pánico, the young troubadour... Read Article
The Mapuche in Modern Chile by Joanna Crow
If the Mapuche people are known at all outside Chile, it is as the fierce Araucanian warriors that managed to... Read Article
Chile’s Independent Musicians Reinterpret The Songs of Victor Jara
In the history of Latin American culture there are few figures as important as Victor Jara. Not only was he... Read Article
REVIEW Ani Cordero – Recordar
Recordar, to remember, is a bold statement. In a period, which has lost and is continuously losing its tutelary deities,... Read Article