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Release Cancion Protesta: Protest Songs of Latin America
Year 1970
Label Paredon # PAR01001
Format LP · Album
Country Cuba
Language Spanish
Songs here 3 in the archive
Citation: Justin A. Brummer, Vietnam War Song Project (VWSP) — Various Artists, Cancion Protesta: Protest Songs of Latin America; cite each song by its SongID

Cancion Protesta: Protest Songs of Latin America

1970 · Album · Paredon # PAR01001 · Cuba
3 songs from this release are in the archive, listed below in catalogue order. Track positions are not recorded; the release may carry other songs that do not reference the war. Most common themes: Anti-War, Anti-Imperialism.
Annotation
Compilation of Spanish-language South American protest songs (Paredon Records # PAR01001), released in the US, which included three tracks related to the Vietnam War. Paredon Records was founded by Barbara Dane and Irwin Silber in 1969, whose objective was to "seek out the music and speech, documentary or dialogue, that spring from the conscious artist who relates to people's movements, and which pour from all people in struggle".1 This record label released several albums either about the Vietnam War or that contained a Vietnam War song, see the note below. Also note that in 1969 Dane and Sliber published the book "The Vietnam Song Book" which included the notation and lyrics of one hundred anti-war songs collected from around the world.Firstly, this LP included the track "Bajo el arco del sol" ( "Under the Arc of the Sun: Armed Struggle" ) by Silvio Rodríguez, born on 29 November 1946 in San Antonio de los Baños, Havana, Cuba. This song was a protest against imperialism across the world, but made several specific references to the Vietnam conflict: "look at my wounds in those other places, like Indochina" , and "I divided my weeping by colors...and it was like the Mekong" . Note that Silvio Rodríguez was a member of the Cuban group Grupo de Experimentación Sonora del ICAIC, an important band in the Nueva canción latinoamericana movement, featuring several prominent artists. This group released the Vietnam song "Su nombre' Ho Chi Minh (Your Name, Ho Chi Minh)" on the album Cuba va! Songs of the New Generation of Revolutionary Cuba, discussed below.
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Collections
Songs from this release appear in these 2 curated collections.
The songs
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1970 · Album · Paredon # PAR01001 · Cuba · Cancion Protesta: Protest Songs of Latin America

born on 7 October 1946 in Havana, Cuba. He died on 7 August 2005. He was also a member of the Cuban group Grupo de Experimentación Sonora del ICAIC