Thanks to Life (eBook)

A Biography of Violeta Parra

Ericka Kim Verba (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2025
456 Seiten
The University of North Carolina Press (Verlag)
978-1-4696-8297-6 (ISBN)

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Chilean musician and artist Violeta Parra (19171967) 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 Cancin (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 Parras 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 Parras 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 Parras journey as she invented and reinvented herself in her struggle to be recognized as an artist on her own terms.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 14.1.2025
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• ISBN-10: 1-4696-8297-4 / 1469682974
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4696-8297-6 / 9781469682976