Rafael Manriquez - Que Viva El Canto: Songs and Singers Of Chile - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

This album of traditional Chilean music includes a number of old songs and traditional dances, most of them belonging to the 19th century. Chilean music has marked characteristics of it's own. It cannot be denied the old Spanish influence, but it carries in itself at the same time, the peculiar expression of the people from this land down south.

In every epoch, certain struggles against oppression have come down through history and sum up for US in a single heroic shout the great reservoir of courage and humanity which is the common birthright of all people. France of 1789, Russia of 1917, China of 1949, Cuba of 1959; these are both milestones and symbols, the tradition of revolution which demonstrates that historically all reactionaries have been, in essence, paper tigers. That a people united can never be defeated. But not every symbol is a victorious one. The world has borne to witness to the bloody coup of September 1973 which swallowed and destroyed the Popular Unity government of Salvador.

Pablo Cárcamo - Best of Chile [COMPACT DISCS] date 02/13/2007