ISES   20394
INSTITUTO SUPERIOR DE ESTUDIOS SOCIALES
Unidad Ejecutora - UE
capítulos de libros
Título:
From the Andes to Paris: Atahualpa Yupanqui, the Communist Party, and the Latin American Folksong Movement
Autor/es:
ORQUERA, YOLANDA FABIOLA
Libro:
Red Strains. Music and Communism outside the Communist Bloc after 1945
Editorial:
The British Academy and Oxford University Press
Referencias:
Lugar: Londres; Año: 2012; p. 105 - 118
Resumen:
Héctor Roberto Chavero Aramburu, better known as Atahualpa Yupanqui (Pergamino, Argentina, 1908- Nimes, France, 1992), is an outstanding Argentinean folk-composer who celebrated the life and denounced the hardships of rural workers in the Pampas and the Andes. In 1945 he affiliated to the Communist Party, but in 1947, after an increasing conflict with the Peronist government, his songs were blacklisted. The musician immigrated to Uruguay and from there he was sent by his Party to Eastern Europe and Paris. Yupanqui’s Parisian sojourn, during which he secured the support of the communist recording label Le Chant du Monde, was crucial to introduce Argentine folklore to European audiences. This paper focuses upon the period 1946 to 1950, analyzing Yupanqui’s complex relationship with the policies of Perón, and, over all, the French Communist Party as a privileged representative of the proletarian aesthetic.