Listen to the Soundtrack of Salvador Allende's Chile
Jacobin 15:11
THE RECORD IS CULTURE is a phrase printed on the records that were published by the IRT label. Always on the back cover, this slogan gives a special imprint to the delivery of the phonogram, assigning it the character of cultural support
Founded by the nationalization program of the Salvador Allende government that acquired the majority of the shares of the transnational RCA, the IRT manufactured electronic equipment and also pressed vinyl records. The company had an artistic department that defined an aesthetic and editorial line so particular that it became a Latin American reference.
The IRT functioned as described, from April 1971 to September 11, 1973, when with the Military Coup it was dismantled, its board of directors sent into exile and the workers, separated from their positions.
Most of the masters and recordings were destroyed. Every type of record or file was made to disappear. Almost
https://eldiscoescultura.online/
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(The recording continues for some time, becoming more interesting with a sampling of styles of music from that historic, painful era.
Haven't gotten to the end, yet, and have heard several songs by political activist, composer, singer Victor Jara, who was kidnapped by Pinochet's government from the campus of the university where he taught, kept and tortured in the soccer stadium in Santiago, then finally got his hands crushed by the gun butts of guards, wrote messages and songs and sent them out of the stadium to his wife Joan, before they shot him to death.
Some of this music is very strong, as you will see.)
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Victor Jara, with his wife and daughters in the first photo.
Victor Jara, in Helsinki, in the second. He was known world-wide before being tortured, maimed, then murdered.
Wikipedia:
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Jara was arrested by the Chilean military shortly after the 11 September 1973 coup led by Augusto Pinochet, which overthrew Allende. He was tortured during interrogations and ultimately shot dead, and his body was thrown out on the street of a shantytown in Santiago.[3] The contrast between the themes of his songs—which focused on love, peace, and social justice—and his murder transformed Jara into a "potent symbol of struggle for human rights and justice" for those killed during the Pinochet regime.[4][5][6] His prominent role as an admirer and propagandist for Che Guevara and Allende's government, in which he served as a cultural ambassador through the late 1960s and until 1973, made him a target.
In June 2016, a Florida jury found former Chilean Army officer Pedro Barrientos liable for Jara's murder.[7][8] In July 2018, eight retired Chilean military officers were sentenced to 15 years and a day in prison for Jara's murder.[9]
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Political activism
Early in his recording career, Jara showed a knack for antagonizing conservative Chileans, releasing a traditional comic song called "La beata" that depi
cted a religious woman with a crush on the priest to whom she goes for confession. The song was banned on radio stations and removed from record shops, but the controversy only added to Jara's reputation among young and progressive Chileans.[23] More serious in the eyes of the Chilean right wing was Jara's growing identification with the socialist movement led by Salvador Allende. After visits to Cuba and the Soviet Union in the early 1960s, Jara joined the Communist Party. The personal met the political in his songs about the poverty he had experienced firsthand.[23
Jara's songs spread outside Chile and were performed by American folk artists.[24] His popularity was due not only to his songwriting skills but also to his exceptional power as a performer. He took a turn toward political confrontation with his 1969 song "Preguntas por Puerto Montt" ("Questions About Puerto Montt"
, whose subject was Edmundo Pérez Zujovic, a government official who had ordered police to attack squatters in the town of Puerto Montt. The Chilean political situation deteriorated after the official was assassinated, and right-wing thugs beat up Jara on one occasion.[24]
More:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V%C3%ADctor_Jara
Early life
