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violeta parra - la cueca presentada por violeta parra - death is not the end - tapes

Genre: World - Misc

1. Presentacion Y Comentario Inicial
2. La Cueca Del Balance
3. Adios Que Se Va Segundo
4. Florecio El Copihue Rojo
5. Un Viejo Me Pidio Un Beso
6. Cueca Del Organillo
7. Cuando Estaba Chiquillona
8. Una Chiquilla En Arauco
9. Quisiera Ser Palomita
10. En El Cuarto De La Carmela
11. 15 more tracks....

Death Is Not The End reissue a rare early LP from Chilean songwriter, folklorist and visual artist Violeta Parra.

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In this collection, Volume III of Parra's Folk Music of Chile series, Parra introduces us to the Cueca, a traditional folk music style and Chile's national dance, which is sung and danced at parties and festivities. Although Cuecas were played on the radio, Parra introduces listeners to popular forms of Cueca she recovered in her field work collecting traditional songs. Navigating Chile's thin land mass from Santiago to Concepcion, Parra heard people in the countryside performing these songs. In her introduction, Parra identifies four types of Cueca: the short Corta, the waltz Valceada, the long Larga voluntaria, and the Balance/obligatoria where the singer individually calls on a man and then a women to dance. Casting herself in the role of ethnomusicologist, this intense musical investigation of Chile's popular folk song traditions went on to greatly influence Parra's own songwriting. The connection with her country's traditions earned her the reputation as Chile's foremost poet and folk singer.