Blog #8: Chilean Music

Violeta Parra: 
She was a Chilean composer, folk singer, and social activist, through her work she expresses her viewpoint on politics. She used her music to help the Nueva Cancion movement, a social movement, and musical genre characterized by folk-inspired styles and socially committed lyrics. She was one of the most influential women in this movement, her songs incorporated ideas that played a role in political movements of that time period. Parra, in particular, focused on writing her songs using the poor as her social theme. She traveled the world to collect information, she also spent time trying to spread her works, musical and artistic with the world. 



Victor Jara:
He was a Chilean teacher, theater director, poet, singer-songwriter, and political activist. He was against violence and included his ideals into his songs. Victor Jara would use political issues and his advocating for Allende’s election and work them into his music; he also played a large role in the development of la Nueva Canción Chilean. Victor Jara was later killed by the military. men because of his political ideas. His music left a lasting impression on the music world, the political ideas expressed in his music were still relevant and gave a long lasting impression after he died.


Los Prisioneros:
They were a group of 3 main members of a Chilean rock/pop band formed in Santiago, Chile. They are one of the strongest musical influences that Chile has made to Latin American music and the band with the strongest socio-political impact in Chile. They wrote their songs on controversial topics that criticized these topics, such as socio-economic issues, education, economic policies, etc. Their songs were used by Chileans to protest the military protest against Pinochet. Their band did become banded at one point from 1985 to 1990, but their music continued to spread in Chile.

Ana Tijoux: 
She is a French-Chilean musician, originally an MC of a hip-hop group Makiza, later she crossed over to the mainstream of Latin pop. Her parents were Chilean but were imprisoned and escaped and fled from Chile because of Pinochet at the time, fleeing to France where they had Ana. She became a hip-hop artist and moved back to Chile in 1990, where she started developing songs discussing the politics that happened in Chile, even though she didn't live through it. Her music is about feminism, education, and politics. She used Victor Jara and Violeta Parra as inspirations and musical role models that she used in creating her own music.