Live Version:
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Victor Jara - El Derecho De Vivir En Paz | 04:50 | https://youtu.be/GSZ5bC0WIGw
“El Derecho de Vivir en Paz” es la primera canción del disco de mismo nombre del artista chileno Víctor Jara.
Escrita en 1969, “El derecho de vivir en paz” es una canción de protesta contra la sangrienta intervención estadounidense en la guerra de Vietnam.
Muchos consideran a esta pista como una de las canciones de mayor innovación en la obra de Jara, juntando guitarras eléctricas, bajo eléctrico, batería y órgano, pero con un sonido ligado ligado a sus raíces.
A través de los años, la canción fue objeto de varias reversiones, a veces con modificaciones en la letra.[1]
English Translation:
The Right to Live in Peace is the first song of the album of the same name by the Chilean artist Victor Jara.
Written in 1969, the right to live in peace is a song protesting against the bloody American intervention in the Vietnam War.
Many consider this track to be one of the most innovation songs in Jara’s work, bringing together electric guitars, electric bass, drums and organ, but with a sound linked to its roots.
Over the years, the song was the subject of several reversals, sometimes with modifications to the lyrics.
TIL:
Tag: Nueva canción
nueva canción, a genre of pan-Latin American popular music, best known for propelling a powerful populist political movement—especially in Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, and Cuba—during the 1960s and ’70s. The music’s instrumentation, rhythmic character, melodic structure, and textual form and content have been inspired largely by the region’s rural traditions.[2]
Nueva canción is a left-wing social movement and musical genre in Latin America and the Iberian Peninsula, characterized by folk-inspired styles and socially committed lyrics. Nueva canción is widely recognized to have played a profound role in the pro-democracy social upheavals in Portugal, Spain and Latin America during the 1970s and 1980s, and was popular amongst socialist organizations in the region.[3]
Genius Annotation:
- “Poet Ho Chi Minh” - Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam’s poet and revolutionary hero.
- “With genocide and napalm” - The Napalm, a highly flammable gel that is difficult to extinguish, was widely used by the U.S. military against those of North Vietnam and Vietcong in the war that took place between 1955 and 1975. The main goal of their use was to eliminate or reduce the dense jungle foliage that was supposed to cover U.S. enemy troops, and greatly reduced the impact of airstrikes (which were the main weapon in the American country).
- "Uncle Ho, our song, It’s a fire of pure love, It’s pigeon callomar, Olive olive grove, It’s the universal song; Chain that will make it triumph, The right to live in peace | It’s the universal song., Chain that will make it triumph, The right to live in peace - Jara expresses solidarity with the socialist faction of the Vietnamese people and with the efforts of one of its leaders, the “Uncle Ho,” who according to the author fights for the right to live in peace. | It could also be an allusion to Uncle Tom, character of Uncle Tom’s Cabin, or Uncle Toms Cabin, as is his original English title. The book is a classic of American literature and tells the stories of the underground railway, an organization dedicated to freeing slaves before the abolition of slavery. The parallel makes Ho Chi Minh look like an emancipator.