Descripción:
The first book in English to consider the full extent of the accomplishments and influence the Chilean cultural icon, Violeta Parra.

Violeta Parra was an extraordinary figure. She is best known for her contribution to the Latin American New Song movement and for her visual art, which was exhibited in the Musée des Arts Décoratifs of the Louvre gallery in 1964.

Parra spent her early career singing Mexican songs in bars and researching traditional Chilean culture. All the different phases of Parra’s life and work are discussed in this book, with analyses of her music, paintings, sculptures, embroideries (arpilleras), and poetry. Her exhibition in the Louvre gallery and the music venue that she set up before she died, La Carpa de la Reina, are also covered.

Among the individual essays collected here are seminal works by Patricio Manns and Leonidas Morales, which have been translated into English for the first time. These works introduce the historical and biographical context for Parra’s work. Other essays feature thelatest research and findings by Catherine Boyle, Ericka Verba, Paula Miranda, Serda Yalkin, Romina A. Green, and Lorna Dillon. The book also includes an interview with Violeta Parra’s brother, the influential poet Nicanor Parra and a Foreword by Marjorie Agosín.


CONTENTS:

List of Contributors

Acknowledgements

Foreword

Introduction

Violeta Parra: The Genesis of her Art

Extracts from La guitarra indócil (The Unruly Guitar)

Conversation with Nicanor Parra about Violeta

Back in the Days when She sang Mexican Songs on the Radio...Before Violeta Parra was Violeta Parra

Violeta Parra, Creative Researcher

Unearthing Violeta Parra: Counter-Memory, Rupture, and Authenticity Outside of the Modern

Violeta Parra at the Louvre: The ‘Naïve’ as a Strategy of the Authentic

Violeta Parra’s Contribution to the 1960s Art Scene

Violeta Parra and the Empty Space of La Carpa de la Reina

Conclusion

Index