Victor Jara, An Unfinished Song is the biography of Victor Jara as told by his wife, Joan. Victor spent his youth in the poor urban areas of Chile during the time of World War II. Victor 's peasant background had a major effect on his songs because they were all about the political struggles of the lower class in Chile during that time period. Although he started his music career with lyrics influenced by his upbringing, politics were always an undeniably evident theme in all of Jara 's songs because it was an unavoidable topic. There was a lot of violence, corruption, and injustice going with Chilean politics. Victor used music as a weapon in war, challenging the government and calling out all of the things he didn 't like about the way his country was being run. “By the late sixties, Victor 's songs were no longer autobiographical but dealt much more with the general problems, tasks and objectives facing the peoples of Latin America – even though they were very …show more content…
Although his songs were dark and emotional, his lyrics were very real which is why people appreciated them so much. The words he sang influenced people in Chile during the time of the war by giving them a sense of hope, reassuring his audience that regardless of how bad things are, each individual person in the community has voice and if everyone 's voice can come together, they can make a change. People liked to believe in the idea that they had the power to make a difference in their country and that they had the power to end the violence. To Victor, being a popular musician meant that he had the power to influence people with his songs about politics and the corrupt government in which he had to live under. He had the power to have his voice heard by millions of people and that 's all that mattered to him because he wanted people to know how he felt about the violence and the mass murders going on during that
Ritchie Valens was a Mexican American singer that died in a plane crash at the age of 17. Ritchie influenced futures groups like Los Lonely Boys, Carlos Santana and Los Lobos. Ritchie was the pioneer of Chicano Rock, in a young age he found the love in music. As a kid he started playing different types of instrument Ritchie’s dad was who encourage him to keep going. Ritchie’s inspiration to music was Flamenco guitar, Mexican Mariachi, R&B and Little Richard as he was in this type of environment grow-ing up. When Ritchie’s father died in a car accident, he was devastated as he was less than ten years’ old. He was forced to occupied himself into the music as a way of deal-ing with the loss of his dad. At the
In essence, the corrido genre is legendary for its hard-bitten lyrics of drug traffickers plus gunfights, and moreover functions as a genus of musical tabloid, singing of regime dishonesty, the lives of émigrés in the United States, in addition to the scuffles of the Zapatista insurgency in Chiapas. Although principally anonymous to English speakers, narco corridos top the leading Latin charts and govern radio playlists equally in the United States as well as points south. Examining diverse recent studies, the authors present in-depth examinations at the songwriters who have changed groups like the trendy Tigres del Norte into permanent celebrities, as well as the upcoming artists who are hauling the narco corrido into the 21st. In proving for the poetry as well as social demonstration at the back the ornate lyrics of in...
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Martin Espada’s poem is a tragic view of what people living in poverty were subjected to. Several lines of this poem, paint a horrific picture of their lives. As the poem progresses the tone changes to what his hopes and dreams were for the future of these people. The author wrote this to help other people be aware of the tragedies that have and could happen again.
In 1959, the U.S. was afforded the opportunity to implement the 1953 memorandum when Fidel Castro implemented a communist government in Cuba. It is likely that the composers of the memoran...
With the different trips that Victor endures individually, it hints a sense of individuality as he seeks isolation from the world. He is also a very emotional man, who loves his family. As death of his family members occurs, he becomes emotionally unstable and seeks revenge against his creation. Ultimately trying to end the life he so vigorously wanted to create. This reflects both the passion and individualism theme from the Romantic
...as made of different people, so he had different personalities, and therefore could not be expected to act as a normal person. Upon his creation, he was left not receiving the protection and guidance he desperately needed. His feelings were the same as any other humans: grief, and distress, anger. But, instead of calmly diffusing his anger, he chose to destroy that which made his “enemy” happy. There was never a good reason to bring the dead to life, despite all of Victor’s claims. Because of his arrogance, and lack of a functioning human heart, he disregarded everyone’s opinions and advice and sought to do what was right for himself and not even attempting to protect his family, regardless of how he claimed he did. His incompetence cost his entire family’s life, but fortunately, saved that of Walton and his crew mates. So, at least, he did one good.
Migrant workers, as explained in chapter twenty three of The Grapes of Wrath, used music as a main source of entertainment. They would play the harmonica, the guitar, and the fiddle, while the other workers would dance and be jolly, despite how bad the work was that day. The instrumentals of the song are harmonica and acoustic guitar. This helps to bring out both the theme of the song and the ideas from the book.
Cantecul Miresei, a piece also known as “Bride’s Song” is a Romanian piece, which by the english title is used for weddings. The ensemble playing it consists primarily of a brass sections with trumpets, tubas, trombones, and baritones, giving allowing the melody to be doubled in a higher and lower octave. The lower instruments also articulate the polymeter structure: triple meter with 2 extra beats. This meter is made more prominent by the scratch board and percussion. The dynamics stay mostly constant, until the closing of the piece where the quick diminuendo leads to nothing and the tempo stays constant. The melody travels between octaves, first starting with the trumpets, making it bright and piercing, virtually impossible to mistake. The
Victor not being able to read made him dread going to school because his teacher would require students to read out loud. Victor states how having to read out loud was not his only fear but many other things as well. He was also extremely fearful of facing the world without his mother. That is another reason victor also hated staying at school because his mother could not stay with him. After a while, Victor learned soon enough to adapt to being without his mother, realizing that everything would be Ok. He also began to make friends at school, which helped him be a bit more comfortable at school. One of the boys he hung out with the most was his friend Ramón. This boy Ramon inspired and motivated Victor to become brave like him. In Chapter four we see an example of this where Victor states “I quit crying, just like that. My God, I couldn’t believe it, this boy Ramon had to be the bravest boy I had ever seen” (Villaseñor 64).Victor makes it clear about how he admires Ramon for his bravery and also refers to Ramon’s personality as his motivation for courage. I learned how Victor in this book changes from a young fearful boy to a brave gritty young man proud of his Mexican roots. Fear is a great motivator.
he became ill, and his only concern was to reach his goal. Victor's father tries to
Victor grows up in school both on the American Indian Reservation, then later in the farm town junior high. He faces serious discrimination at both of these schools, due to his Native American background. This is made clear in both of the schools by the way the other students treat him as well as how his teachers treat him. His classmates would steal his glasses, trip him, call him names, fight him, and many other forms of bullying. His teachers also bullied him verbally. One of his teachers gave him a spelling test and because he aced it, she made him swallow the test. When Victor was at a high school dance and he passed out on the ground. His teacher approached him and the first thing he asked was, “What’s that boy been drinking? ...
Freddie Mercury was not an activist; he was an inspiration to artists, the LGBT community, and AIDS patients. The lead singer of the famous British band, Queen, preformed all over the world showing off his four octave vocal range with songs such as; ‘I Want to Break Free’ ‘Fat Bottom Girls’ ‘We Will Rock You’ and their widely most noticeable song ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’. Along with touring the globe, Freddie Mercury was able to reach out and inspire people with his music and the way he lived his life.
According to his review of A Guide to Latin American Music by Gilbert Chase, Charles Seeger describes Chase’s description of the music culture, “The quantitative distribution of more than 2700 entries, which include some multiple listing, is interesting” (Seeger, 1946, 304). Chase explains a plethora of countries in Latin America and their specific musical features. Furthermore, thanks to his detailed work, the reader can see how many common features can be seen. Firstly, a common feature among all genres is the use of aerophones. The aerophones used could include, panpipes of various varieties, flutes, trumpets (as seen at the Boogat performance in Ottawa) and many more. Another common feature among all the genres is a strong rhythmic presence. In essentially all Latin American music, a steady, metrical rhythmic quality can be heard keeping the music energetic and easy to follow. To keep the rhythm, another common feature to Latin American culture is the drum. Most commonly found in the Afro-Latin genre, as a result of influence from African culture, can be seen throughout Latin America. A popularized western form of this type of music, is that of mariachi. Finally, Latin American culture is known for its vibrancy in their music. The music is generally quite expressive of feelings, strong moral messages found in protest songs, and their colorful, elaborate
The end of a semester is the most stressful time for students because of those dreaded finals. Anyone who lived through the 1990s should know the song a young lion and his pals sang after meeting for the first time. However, as the years pass by, society forgets the simple pleasures of youth and the two words that can make all troubles go away. “Hakuna Matata” was a song written by Tim Rice with music by Elton John. This song is also a story about a warthog before he discovered this amazing expression. However, the biggest part of the song is about being carefree and forgetting any troubles that may arise. As finals approach, a student needs to revisit their childhood past and recall the “wonderful phrase:”