Re: [xmca] Second funeral held for Chilean activist Victor Jara

[Andy Blunden <ablunden@mira.net>]

I can only speak for me own country, Australia, Iluvi. In 
the 1960s, American folk singers (later also Australian) 
played a huge role in developing the social and political 
consciousness of young people. I learnt many decades later 
that the "folk music club" I went to every week to listen to 
the songs of people like Pete Seeger in early 1960s was run 
by the Communist Party. The folk music movement was 
intimately linked to the stirring of the political 
consciousness which led to 1968 and all that.

Andy

ulvi icil wrote:
> And now, a suggestion about an issue directly related with XMCA and a
> universal one, beyond Chile...
>
> Does anybody know any study which investigates the role of singers like
> Victor Jara or Pete Seeger or others play in their respective countries in
> the social consciousness of the people? Certainly  there should be books on
> these singers, but I specifically ask from the point of view of the role or
> the effect of the singer in social formation of his/her people's mind and
> consciousness...
> Ulvi

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