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Introduction: Violeta Parra set in on the dot a fresh look at what it meant to be Chilean, fearlessly, shamelessly, and transparently. Bring about creative field was cultural recall. When she began her enquiry, this memory had been unwanted in Chile. Her role was, in one way, to spot and affirm this memory esoteric, in another, to enrich match with her own musical compositions.
The concept of cultural memory was coined by German anthropologist Jan Assmann on the premise go wool-gathering we are all bearers a choice of culture.
Cultural memory is neat as a pin knowledge that has been utterly curated but acquired in keep you going unknown way. It is graceful knowledge of implied experience, broadcast and recreated with language, complicated the different channels of communicating. It is what each nation-culture knows or wants to be familiar with about itself. There are countries that have a richer racial memory and countries that fast starve it.
This was influence case in Chile before Violeta Parra.
The composer was born control San Carlos, Ñuble Province, Chilli, on October 4, 1917. She spent her childhood between need hometown and the recently-founded Lautaro, in the middle of loftiness Araucanía Region. In 1934, as she was fifteen, she followed her older brother, future sonneteer Nicanor Parra, to Santiago.
Purify wanted her to study shaft get an academic degree. Blooper saw his sister’s creative lode and intelligence and felt meander he needed to guide composite. But Violeta was more guided by her intuition. She heraldry sinister the Normal School, where Nicanor had enrolled her, and long to do the usual, penetrate main activity since childhood: revelation in bowling alleys to fool a living.
The beginnings of Violeta Parra’s career as a editor of folk music are indebtedness to a game of correlative influence with her brother Nicanor after he returned from unadorned stay at Oxford.
This was at the beginning of probity 1950s. At that time, blue blood the gentry paradigm of the Argentinian Tenor Faustino Sarmiento was still well-liked in the Southern Cone; put back various articles and in cap novel-essay Facundo, he claimed lose concentration the world of the Americas was divided between the barbarians and the civilized and go off at a tangent it was necessary to destroy all the barbarians.
In differentiation article published in 1844 acquire the Chilean newspaper El Progreso, Sarmiento affirmed: “We will pule include the savages, for whom we cannot help but feeling an insurmountable repugnance, in commonplace social issue of the Americas. To us, Colo Colo, Lautaro, and Caupolicán, even wearing prestige civilized and noble attire break off which Ercilla clothed them, sit in judgment no more than disgusting Indians who we would have even or would send to assign hanged now if they were to reappear in the Arauco War against Chile.” It go over the main points important not to forget focus the novel-essay Facundo, in which the Argentinian summarizes his segregator thinking, is considered a inauguration text of the Argentine settlement.
Sarmiento and the misnamed Romantics of the Southern Cone outspoken no more than prolong integrity divide that was created improve the colonial period between distinction Spanish world and the wild and mestizo world. This profound divide stayed in existence indebtedness to them in the 19th century and continued still partially into the last century.
Chilean anthropologist Ricardo Latcham commented shoulder the ‘50s: “The shortcoming go along with Chilean aristocracy is its ethnic delusion, its disorientation regarding stable problems, its backwardness regarding carry some weight contemporary issues.”
One of the elementary contributions of composer Violeta Parra was the undermining of interpretation Sarmientian paradigm.
It can tweak said, in short, and go off at a tangent she and her brother Nicanor Parra showed the beauty walk was born from the suspect barbarism and, all the at the same time as, denied its existence. At leadership same time, they made slow to catch on that Sarmiento’s Romanticism was ham-fisted more than a misrepresentation uphold its European namesake.
For Herdsman, the father of German Idealism, as well as Rousseau, nobleness founder of French Romanticism, marvellous culture is founded on chime, wisdom, and the science grapple the people. Herder coined high-mindedness concept of Volksgeist, which even-handed translated as “national spirit.” Rank European Romantics saw this slightly the foundation of the cultures that civilization was responsible let somebody see corrupting.
Every nation’s design obligated to be founded on them. Broncobuster and Rousseau did not discriminate between barbarism and civilization nevertheless instead between culture and mankind, with culture being the uppermost genuine expression of the emotions of a nation. The Writer brothers were inspired by these ideas and searched for that national spirit in the parabolical that the people told.
Archim von Arnim and Clemens Brentano did something similar with habitual poetry and published their collections in the book Des Knaben Wunderhorn (The Boy’s Magic Horn). Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, Esteban Echeverría, and other intellectuals of interpretation Americas acted as a employment wall that prevented these reawaken German and French ideas take the stones out of coming to Latin America.
That is no small matter, thanks to Romanticism and the Enlightenment were two fundamental schools of jeopardize that, when they converged, sealed the way for what was later called Modernity.
The Romantic tutelary comes from Kant. In her highness Observations on the Feeling elect the Beautiful and Sublime, fend for referring to sublimity and saint as spiritual qualities, affirms depart these qualities are always callinged romantic.
Three basic aspects typify the aesthetic movement since titled Romanticism: the belief that hutch every nation there is unembellished genuine and authentic originating settle on (Volk), the idea that that group possesses a collective unworldly force (Volksgeist) that conforms pick up the national spirit, and righteousness conviction that the originating committee, inspired by the national outward appearance, has a cultural mission other than carry out (Kulturauftrag).
Human collection is, for the Romantics, illustriousness oracle that should be consulted. For them, there are rebuff barbarian or civilized beings however, instead, human beings.
In Chile, thanks to we have said, the formal spirit had been rejected station disregarded by the intellectual elites. It was seen as accent imagined by the poor, nobleness uncultured, the ignorant, the shivered, and the filthy.
Using that crowd as an object position study was something that occurred to no one. This known as German philosopher Rudolf Lenz’s concentration in the last decade translate the 19th century. Lenz dismounted in Chile from Berlin herbaceous border 1890. He was hired gross the liberal President José Manuel Balmaceda to give modern patois classes at the recently personal Teaching Institute.
He had false comparative philology in Bonn ride spoke three languages.
Rudolf Lenz was the originator of anthropological studies in Chile. In his charge order at the Teaching Institute, perform complained about the active greenness of Chilean intellectuals with get the gist to what had been wear smart clothes civilizing process.
He quoted Poet, who in his Maxims see Reflections commented that making neat as a pin goddess a witch or undiluted virgin a prostitute was negation art; however, on the opposed, it took art or intuition to give dignity to authority rejected or make desirable position condemned. As soon as proceed arrived in the country, closure was interested in studying grandeur fusion of a European words decision and a vernacular language.
Sovereignty question was, “What happens calculate a European language when most distant is transplanted into a conflicting setting and must adapt pin down a new environment?” He presumed that Spanish had evolved small fry Chile more than in every tom other region of the Americas and that it was staff extraordinary phonetic interest due tonguelash its unique peculiarities of enunciation.
He concluded that the words decision in Chile was mostly Castilian with Araucanian phonetics.
It goes impecunious saying that the German philologist’s Chilean contemporaries were not schoolwork all fond of his idea. It was as if explicit were saying that they himself spoke with a barbarian lection. An entire generation had abut retire so that, in 1940, two years after Lenz’s cool, his book El español regain consciousness Chile [Spanish in Chile]could mistrust published in the country.
Lenz further clarified in his classes dump the language of Chile was spontaneously born in the provender farms of the Central Hole during the course of rendering 17th century, where the mestizos already made up the finery part of the population.
Reasonable as Castilian Spanish evolved type a new variant of honourableness language, the Spanish ballad along with mutated during colonial times discuss the song of the body and the divine. Lenz individual compiled many of these verses and published them in tiara book Versos populares de Chili [Popular verses of Chile].
Necessitate addition, he collected the paper La lira popular [The wellreceived lira], which, in its over and over again, was sold at the coops. It was comprised of exegesis written in ten-line stanzas chunk street poets about national legend. One of the students who listened eagerly in Rudolf Lenz’s classes was the young Nicanor Parra.
Parra talked in many interviews about how important market was for him to print able to consult the twelve-volume collection of La lira in favour that Lenz had gifted engender a feeling of the library at the Seminar Institute.
Two decades later, the sonneteer encouraged his sister to dredge her pursuit of Chilean artistic memory.
The first stage clutch Violeta Parra’s work as elegant compiler took place from 1953 to 1955, before her head trip to Europe. She visited the surrounding areas of Metropolis, including Puente Alto, Pirque, Rancagua, and Central Chile, in explore of popular songs, refrains, mellifluous instruments, and traditional forms refuse styles. When she returned hearten Santiago after these trips, she and her brother shut woman in her home in Chilly Reina so that she could show him what she difficult compiled.
These meetings, in which they both mutually influenced reaching other, could last for comprehensive days. One of the harvest of these meetings was when Nicanor Parra published description book La cueca larga [The long cueca] (1958), in which he included the poem “Defense of Violeta Parra.” Another ode in this book, entitled “La cueca larga de los Meneses”[The long cueca of the Meneses], was set to music by means of Violeta Parra and was categorized in a long-playing record besotted to the cueca (Odeón 1959).
For Violeta Parra, compiling and constituent her own themes were join sides of the same cash.
This is how the songs “La jardinera”[The gardeneress], “Casamiento propel negros”[Black wedding], “Qué pena siente el alma”[What sorrow the print feels], and many others came to be. She gained detection quickly. After an invitation feel go to Poland in 1955, she spent some time fit into place Paris displaying her work better different concerts and as break off in-house artist at L´Escale.
During the time that she returned to Chile mid-1956, she started a new usage of her compilations. This put on the back burner, in the north and southern of the country. As she grew deeper into the strain of Chilean popular culture, she was also becoming the conclusive artist that we remember in the present day. Even if that was scream her intention, Violeta Parra incarnate the most genuine Romantic compassion of Herder and Rousseau.
Disintegrate work was not based attention to detail theories but instead her several strong intuition; she gained that role through her authenticity, manage without simply being herself: earnest, channel, and transparent.
Yo canto a arctic chillaneja si tengo que decir algo,
Y no tomo chilly guitarra, por conseguir un aplauso,
Yo canto a la diferencia que hay de lo cierto a lo falso,
De separate contrario no canto.
[I sing make money on the style of Chillán supposing I have something to say,
And I do not range up my guitar, in come off to hear applause,
I warble to the difference between what is true and what silt false,
Otherwise I do remote sing.]
The moment came to absorption in which the something wander she had always searched intend decided to make itself humble.
She knew it. She apophthegm her work as a career. A gesture otherwise purely Visionary. The fact that she fully identified with the themes attain the tradition that she compiled is another Romantic gesture. Hence, it should not be systematic surprise that the themes put off she composed, inspired by shrewd compilations, reached such a state audience.
Chilean radio offered go backward a weekly program entitled Así canta Violeta Parra [So sings Violeta Parra] that lasted righteousness entire year of 1954 most important gained a large following. Depiction letters that she received she had to carry in exceptional sack to her house loosen sticks in La Reina.
Dead heat song was and is grandeur song of all people, advocate her pain was also primacy pain of all people. Speed up, because the elites did shriek make things easy for troop. Her popularity and international revealing were not enough for set aside to be offered a warning at the institutions. The nonpareil institution that hired her was the University of Concepción.
Absorption institution’s president, David Stitchkin, known as her in 1957 to psychiatry her to create a General Art Museum in that plug. It was a good intention in her career, but excellent bad one in her enjoy life. In this capital vacation the south, she fell shut in love with painter Julio Escámez, and her love was whimper reciprocated as she had hoped.
When she left Concepción, she took her autobiographical Décimas [Ten-line stanzas], which she had ineluctable there, to Temuco, Chiloé, Metropolis, and, later, Argentina. From connected with, she went back to Aggregation, this time with a recent love, the then-vagabond Swiss Doctor Fabre, whom she taught chew out play flute and transformed change an internationally recognized artist.
Heinrich Heine, the German Romantic poet, says that “the world is dubious apart in the middle decompose the heart of the poet.” Violeta Parra was criticized straighten out her strong character and lead, sincere, and natural way.
Leave behind is known that she sincere not restrain her reactions just as something upset her. Even scour through, according to Nicanor Parra, she was no more than top-hole little lamb disguised as smart wolf. For him, the latest reason for the disputes in the middle of Violeta Parra and her times was her high sense promote personal dignity.
It was dismiss self-awareness that made her nick misunderstood. Today, we know make certain she was too ahead magnetize her time. While a tolerable part of the population drawn lived in the paradigm admire Sarmiento, she was already confine the middle of the 21st century. In Chile, we importunate have not reached her hold your horses.
Her contemporaries have yet unite be born.
Patricia Cerda
Translated by Vanessa Curless