Victor Jara (1938-1973) ultimately became a great figure in the ...

[lak]

Victor Jara (1938-1973) ultimately became a great figure in the modern song movement, Nueva Cancin, or New Song, of Chile, and sometimes with different names, of all Latin America. How does WOM define Nueva Cancin?
 
  What will be an ideal response?

Question 2

This chapter will take a close look at the musics of which four Latin American countries? Which two languages will be represented in the songs to be studied? Who speaks the Quichua (or, Quechua) language? What basic instrumentations and styles will be represented in the recorded selections for the chapter? The nine recorded pieces to be presented with the chapter speak eloquently to their own cultures _____________. What is the central theme in several of the examples?
 
  What will be an ideal response?

[Gabe]

Answer to Question 1

 Nueva Cancin is a song movement through which people stand up for their own culturefor themselves as a peoplein the face of oppression by a totalitarian regime or in the face of cultural imperialism from aboard, notably the United States and Europe.

Answer to Question 2

 Chile, Bolivia, Ecuador, and Peru
 Spanish and Quichua (or, Quechua)
 Quichua (or, Quechua) is an indigenous tongue of the Andes, spoken by some 6 to 8 million people in Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, and Argentina.
 solo harpist, solo singer (bereaved mother), duos and ensembles; traditional and contemporary styles
 means for expressing profound grief, to their political concerns, to their social forms of music-making (Andean panpipe playing), to their histories and ecologies, or, in one case, to the composer's autobiography
 praise and esteem for one's beloved

[lak]

TYSM

[dawsa925]

Gracias!