Today I'm going to talk about my favourite person in my field, but this person is not attached to the government or political science... this person is tied to music, and for this way recites her worldview and inserts political and social concepts, and generates a new perspective in the Chilean music, and the entire world.
Violeta Parra was born in San Carlos, province of Ñuble, a small town in southern Chile. She was involved in the progressive movement and the Socialist Party of Chile. She was a notable Chilean folklorist and visual artist. She set the basis for "New Song," La Nueva canción chilena, a renewal and a reinvention of Chilean folk music which would absorb and extend its influence far beyond Chile.
In general, the Parra family is very important in the cultural scenery until today, and for that I think in Violeta Parra for this post, because indirectly she impacts the political vision, mostly in the rural zone. I like this woman, because she fight for recover the historical costumes of Chile, and she promotes modes to participle in the government forming conscience specially in the poor sector.
The best thing she made is the letter of his songs, for me, "Maldigo del Alto Cielo" is the best lyric!
She continue to serve in the expat communities that fled Chile after the coup on 11 September 1973 that overthrew President Salvador Allende, and work hardly to gather all the chilean people, and do not loose their love for the country.
Violeta Parra committed suicide with a gunshot to her head in 1967, because of her depression over the breakup of her relationship with Gilbert Favre.
