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Creator of Worlds and Songs

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Mapping Violeta Parra’s Cultural Landscapes

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This chapter examines the last three recordings of Violeta Parra: Recordando a Chile (EMI Odeon, 1965), Las últimas composiciones de Violeta Parra (RCA, 1966), and the posthumous Canciones reencontradas en París (Peña de Los Parra/DICAP, 1971). In these LPs, Parra reproduced musical and socio-political processes, making her a composer worthy of the name Mother of the Nueva Canción Chilena [Chilean New Song]. Her influence on the new song extends throughout Latin America. Parra’s music, poetry, performance, and life combine to construct a legacy that remains valid and pertinent up to the present day, offering us new worlds to discover and inhabit. Her creative and critical works have made a substantial contribution to the shape of Chilean cultural identity.

This essay is translated from its original Spanish.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    For further study on Violeta Parra’s modality as a maker of lo auténtico, see Aravena (2001).

  2. 2.

    See transcriptions and preliminary study of the “Anticuecas” in Concha et al. (1993).

  3. 3.

    In addition, the seguidilla’s inclusion in the second stanza in the Chilean cueca gives it great prominence in the nation’s traditional culture.

  4. 4.

    Cavada (1914, 166–167). Pereira Salas (1941) and Tangol (1972), Loyola (1980), and others approached their work on the sirilla based on Cavada’s research.

  5. 5.

    Violeta continued singing this sirilla in her public performances (Geneva 1965). It was recorded by Isabel on a 1970 album dedicated to her mother.

  6. 6.

    See Carmen Luisa Arce’s interview in Rodríguez (1984).

  7. 7.

    These last two songs were also released on the posthumous album. This time, however, “Levántate Huenchullán” had the title “Arauco tiene una pena” [Arauco Has an Ache].

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  1. Universidad Alberto Hurtado, Santiago, Chile

    Juan Pablo González

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González, J.P. (2018). Creator of Worlds and Songs. In: Vilches, P. (eds) Mapping Violeta Parra’s Cultural Landscapes. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-69302-6_6

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