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Thanks to life : a biography of Violeta Parra / Ericka Verba.

Van Pelt - Albrecht Music Library ML420.P26 V47 2025
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Author/Creator:
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Genre:
  • Biographies.
Physical Description:
442 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
Place of Publication:
Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2025]
Summary:
"Chilean musician and artist Violeta Parra (1917-1967) is an inspiration to generations of artists and activists across the globe. Her music is synonymous with resistance, and it animated both the Chilean folk revival and the protest music movement Nueva Canción (New Song). Her renowned song 'Gracias a la vida' has been covered countless times, including by Joan Baez, Mercedes Sosa, and Kacey Musgraves. A self-taught visual artist, Parra was the first Latin American to have a solo exhibition at the Museum of Decorative Arts in the Louvre. In this remarkable biography, Ericka Verba traces Parra's radical life and multifaceted artistic trajectory across Latin America and Europe and on both sides of the Iron Curtain. Drawing on decades of research, Verba paints a vivid and nuanced picture of Parra's life. From her modest beginnings in southern Chile to her untimely death, Parra was an exceptionally complex and talented woman who exposed social injustice in Latin America to the world through her powerful and poignant songwriting. This examination of her creative, political, and personal life, flaws and all, illuminates the depth and agency of Parra's journey as she invented and reinvented herself in her struggle to be recognized as an artist on her own terms"-- Provided by publisher.
Contents:
  • Materials
  • Anti-Materials
  • Folklorista
  • Europe I
  • Violeta Volcánica I
  • Volcanic Violeta II
  • Europe II
  • Total Artist
  • New Songs
  • Last Songs.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
  • 9781469682945
  • 146968294X
  • 9781469682952
  • 1469682958
OCLC:
1430193913

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