Music and Political Imprisonment in Pinochet's Chile

Katia Chornik (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

184 Seiten

2025
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
9780190052256 (ISBN)

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Over 1,000 political imprisonment and torture centers existed across Chile during the dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet (1973-90). Music was often present in those centers, both as a response to and part of human rights violations. In this pioneering book, Katia Chornik explores the relationships between music, politics, memory, and human rights, discussing a broad range of music experiences and repertoire and how these are remembered, preserved, and disseminated decades later.

The book probes how pieces written, performed, and listened to in captivity are threaded into survivors' memories of mistreatment, resilience, and experiences beyond resistance. Chornik blends sources from the Cantos Cautivos digital archive with interviews with ex-political prisoners, agents of secret services, and visitors to prisons, proposing the notion of "memory cacophony" to describe the discordant kaleidoscope of voices, memories, repertoire, and experiences unveiled. Chornik demonstrates how music, as an expression of powerful lived experiences, is an essential component of the cultural history and legacy of the Pinochet period.

Katia Chornik grew up in the Chilean diaspora as her parents experienced political detention and exile under Pinochet. She is the author of Alejo Carpentier and the Musical Text (2015) and numerous academic and media articles on Latin American politics, culture, history, and society, and is the founder of the Cantos Cautivos digital archive. She has worked for UNESCO and in the university, public, and cultural sectors, and is affiliated with Cambridge's Centre for Latin American Studies.

Prologue by Michelle Bachelet Jeria
Introduction
Chapter 1: Music Threaded into Torture and Other Mistreatment
Chapter 2: The Memories and Songs of a Convicted Perpetrator
Chapter 3: Beyond Canonic Narratives of Resistance
Chapter 4: Grassroots Commemoration and Revival
Chapter 5: Archiving Memories: The Cantos Cautivos Digital Project
Coda

Erscheinungsdatum	15.11.2025
Reihe/Serie	Currents in Latin American and Iberian Music
Zusatzinfo	24
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	431 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Klassik / Oper / Musical
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
ISBN-13	9780190052256 / 9780190052256
Zustand	Neuware