Violeta Parra

Violeta Parra

出生 : 1917-10-04, San Carlos, Ñuble Province, Chile

死亡 : 1967-02-05

略歴

Violeta del Carmen Parra Sandoval was a Chilean composer, singer-songwriter, folklorist, ethnomusicologist and visual artist. She pioneered the Nueva Canción Chilena, a renewal and a reinvention of Chilean folk music that would extend its sphere of influence outside Chile. Parra is acknowledged as "the Mother of Latin American folk".

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Violeta Parra

参加作品

Violeta más viva que nunca
Herself (archive footage)
Viola Chilensis
Music
Viola Chilensis
Self (archive footage)
Canto Libre - den fria sången
Self (archive footage)
A concert program about the current development of the free Latin American music presented by a wide range of artists, performers and groups from around the countries of the continent.
Compañero Presidente
Music
On January 4, 1971, an extensive dialogue takes place between the president of Chile Salvador Allende and the French intellectual Regis Debray, a discussion about the Chilean process towards the installation of a socialist government. Filmed by a team from Chilefilms, a state-owned company dedicated to the production of audiovisual works, it is a unique testimony to Allende's thinking in the first year of his government.
Los artistas plásticos de Chile
Music
Visits the workshops of prominent Chilean painters and sculptors, a vision of artistic creation takes shape. Finally, the first Plastic Arts Fair in Parque Forestal was held, where several of them exhibited their works in the open air.
Trilla
Music
A survey documentary filmed in the wheat fields of the community of Calquinhue, near the town of Hualqui, in the province of Concepción. The film shows the gestures in the various tasks of the community members engaged in harvesting the wheat, from the harvest to the sale.
Mimbre
Original Music Composer
Shows the visual impressions aroused when entering the workshop of a wicker craftsman known as 'Manzanito' in the late 50's Santiago, Chile.
Andacollo
Music
Detailed record of the celebration of the day of the Virgin of Andacollo, a feast that takes place between December 23 and 27 in the city of Andacollo, located in the Coquimbo Region, Chile. The arrival of the pilgrims, the way to the temple, and the beginning of the procession of the Virgin through the town, along with the dances of the numerous brotherhoods that gather. Then, the penitences for completed errands, other activities around the festivity and, finally, the departure of the pilgrims.