Turning Protest Music into Art
Parra was an intensely engaged artist, whose art reflects immense historical changes that were occurring in the 1960s, both in Latin America and around the world. In this chapter, there is a reflection on the way she voiced concerns about issues of injust
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Lorna Dillon
Violeta Parra’s Visual Art
Lorna Dillon
Violeta Parra’s Visual Art Painted Songs
Lorna Dillon School of Applied Social and Policy Sciences Ulster University Derry-Londonderry, Northern Ireland
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Acknowledgements
Violeta Parra left a powerful cultural legacy. She was an icon of the Chilean left, always standing up to injustice and inequality. As this book goes to press in 2020, the Chilean people have been protesting against systemic injustices. What started with students refusing to pay an increase in the metro fare turned into a nationwide struggle against a constitution that was approved in a referendum conducted under a military dictatorship. Their fight is against an economic model that sees ordinary Chileans working increasingly hard, yet struggling to make ends meet. Violeta Parra’s place in this is powerful yet contested. No-where is this more evident than in the Museo Violeta Parra (Violeta Parra Museum), once a beautiful gallery that showcased Parra’s work but now a mere shell of a building that has been repeatedly attacked by arsonists. When I visited the museum in 2017, it was free to enter; schoolchildren were enjoying Parra’s embroideries and it hosted a variety of outreach events to help the public engage with Parra’s art and music. Parra’s artistic legacy continues to be a beacon in the struggle against systemic injustices. It is telling then t
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