Mapping Violeta Parra's Cultural Landscapes

One of the first volumes to offer an extended study of Violeta Parra's work and influence in the English language

Includes multidisciplinary perspectives on Violeta Parra the singer songwriter, visual artist, poet, and political activist with approaches ranging from history to music, creative writing to literary studies and more

Released upon the one-hundredth anniversary of Violeta Parra's birth

Autorentext

Patricia Vilches is Professor of Spanish and Italian and Scholar in Residence at Harlaxton College, UK and Professor of Spanish and Italian at Lawrence University, USA (retired). She is author of Blest Gana via Machiavelli and Cervantes: National Identity and Social Order in Chile (2017) and co-editor of Seeking Real Truths: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Machiavelli (2007).

Klappentext

Readers discovering Violeta Parra for the first time and those who wish to deepen their understanding of her will appreciate this illuminating book.

Nancy Morris, Professor, Department of Media Studies and Production, Temple University, USA

The editor and her collaborators have given us a giftthe ability to 'listen' differently to the music and art that embodied a nation, a social era, and a singular artist.

Steve J. Stern, Alberto Flores Galindo and Hilldale Professor of History, Emeritus, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA One of the leading figures in Latin American folk music and art during her lifetime, Violeta Parra was a vital force in the artistic, musical, visual, cultural, and social cultural production of the Chilean 1960s. Fifty years after her death, she continues to deeply influence artists of the present day. This book revisits Parra's work and legacy to illustrate her global impact across artistic and political boundaries. Contributors offer multi-disciplinary perspectives that delineate how Parra contributed to shaping andat the same timeantagonizing, societal processes in mid-20th century Chile. Patricia Vilches is Professor of Spanish and Italian and Scholar in Residence at Harlaxton College, UK and Professor of Spanish and Italian at Lawrence University, USA (retired). She is author of Blest Gana via Machiavelli and Cervantes: National Identity and Social Order in Chile (2017) and co-editor of Seeking Real Truths: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Machiavelli (2007).

Inhalt

1. Con Fuerza, Violeta Parra: The Artist and her Legacy (Patricia Vilches).- Part I. Viola admirable: Compilation, Creation, and the Chilean Nation.- 2. Violeta Parra and the Chilean Folk Revival of the 1950s (Ericka Verba).- 3. What Type of Music did Violeta Parra Make? Her Multiform, Musical, Authorship (Lorena Valdebenito).- 4. La Violeta: Making the Transparent Opaque in Violeta Parra's Work (Jerónimo Duarte Riascos).- 5. I Do Not Play the Guitar for Applause: Turning the World Upside Down (Alejandro Escobar-Mundaca).- Part II. Como dijera Violeta: Expressions of her Legacy in the Twenty-First Century.- 6. Creator of Worlds and Songs (Juan Pablo González).- 7. Violeta Went to Heaven and the Ethics of Contemporary Latin American Melodrama (Rosa Tapia).- 8. Violeta Parra: Her Museum and Carpa as Spaces of Nostalgia (Patricia Vilches).