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Release Vietnam mascarones
Year Unknown
Label Mascarones
Format LP · Album
Country Cuba
Language Spanish
Songs here 3 in the archive
Citation: Justin A. Brummer, Vietnam War Song Project (VWSP) — Félix Pita Rodríguez, Vietnam mascarones; cite each song by its SongID

Vietnam mascarones

Unknown date · Album · Mascarones · 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, Vietnamese Patriotic, Vietnamese Perspective.
Annotation
Released in Cuba, much of this record featured the poetry of Félix Pita Rodríguez, born 18 February 1909 in Havana, Cuba, and died in the same city in 1990. He was an active communist, in the 1940s writing for the Noticias de Hoy, the official publication of the Popular Socialist Party, becoming more prominent after the Cuban Revolution in 1959.12 The poems recited on this LP included: "Relato de una campesina de Viet-Nam" ( "Story of a Vietnamese Peasant Woman" ), "Su nombre puede ponerse en verso" ( "Your name Can Be Put Into Verse" ), "Cantata a la escuela de Huong Phuc" ( "Cantata to the School of Huong Phuc" ). This is mixed in with three songs, the famous "Balada de Ho-Chi-Minh" by Ewan MacColl, "Interprete y guitarra" ("Interpreter and Guitar") by Pablo Milanés - born on 24 February 1943 in Bayamo, Granma, Cuba, a prominent member of the Nueva canción latinoamericana movement. The final song was by Silvio Rodríguez, born on 29 November 1946 in San Antonio de los Baños, Havana, Cuba. He was a member of the Cuban Grupo de Experimentación Sonora del ICAIC, discussed above. The song was called "La era esta pariendo un corazon" ("The Era Is Giving Birth to a Heart").
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Collection
Songs from this release appear in this curated collection.
The songs
1.
Unknown date · Album · Mascarones · Cuba · Vietnam mascarones

Mascarones production (logo with a portrait of Che Guevara and "Producción Mascarones"); no catalogue number or year printed. The front sleeve shows a pop-art Vietnamese woman fighter in a leaf-camouflaged helmet with a stethoscope, foliage on her back and a machine gun, before a yellow star on blue and red, lettered "Vietnam" and "Mascarones"; "Portada: Recreación sobre un cartel cubano: Javier Salinas". The back is typewritten, with a painting of Ho Chi Minh raising his fist over massed crowds, and the dedication "Al heroico pueblo de Viet-Nam, vanguardia y ejemplo en la lucha contra el imperialismo yanki. Viet-Nam, un mundo donde el hombre alcanza su dimensión más alta." Poems are by Félix Pita Rodríguez, "poeta cubano (1909), de su libro 'Viet-Nam, notas de un diario'"; songs by Silvio Rodríguez (1946) and Pablo Milanés (1943), "jóvenes compositores de Cuba"; adaptation and voices: Mascarones. Lado A: 1. "Relato de una campesina de Viet-Nam" (Félix Pita Rodríguez), closing song "Balada de Ho-Chi-Minh" by Ewan Mc Coll (Inglaterra); 2. "Su nombre puede ponerse en verso", poem by Félix Pita R., music, voice and guitar by Pablo Milanés. Lado B: 1. "Cantata a la escuela de Huong Phuc" (Félix Pita Rodríguez); 2. "La era está pariendo un corazón", words and music Silvio Rodríguez, organ Leo Brouwer, drums Enrique Pla, voice and guitar Silvio Rodríguez. [From the record sleeve and labels]

2.
Unknown date · Album · Mascarones · Cuba · Vietnam mascarones

Mascarones production (logo with a portrait of Che Guevara and "Producción Mascarones"); no catalogue number or year printed. The front sleeve shows a pop-art Vietnamese woman fighter in a leaf-camouflaged helmet with a stethoscope, foliage on her back and a machine gun, before a yellow star on blue and red, lettered "Vietnam" and "Mascarones"; "Portada: Recreación sobre un cartel cubano: Javier Salinas". The back is typewritten, with a painting of Ho Chi Minh raising his fist over massed crowds, and the dedication "Al heroico pueblo de Viet-Nam, vanguardia y ejemplo en la lucha contra el imperialismo yanki. Viet-Nam, un mundo donde el hombre alcanza su dimensión más alta." Poems are by Félix Pita Rodríguez, "poeta cubano (1909), de su libro 'Viet-Nam, notas de un diario'"; songs by Silvio Rodríguez (1946) and Pablo Milanés (1943), "jóvenes compositores de Cuba"; adaptation and voices: Mascarones. Lado A: 1. "Relato de una campesina de Viet-Nam" (Félix Pita Rodríguez), closing song "Balada de Ho-Chi-Minh" by Ewan Mc Coll (Inglaterra); 2. "Su nombre puede ponerse en verso", poem by Félix Pita R., music, voice and guitar by Pablo Milanés. Lado B: 1. "Cantata a la escuela de Huong Phuc" (Félix Pita Rodríguez); 2. "La era está pariendo un corazón", words and music Silvio Rodríguez, organ Leo Brouwer, drums Enrique Pla, voice and guitar Silvio Rodríguez. [From the record sleeve and labels]

3.
Credited as Pablo Milanés · Unknown date · Album · Mascarones · Cuba · Vietnam mascarones

Mascarones production (logo with a portrait of Che Guevara and "Producción Mascarones"); no catalogue number or year printed. The front sleeve shows a pop-art Vietnamese woman fighter in a leaf-camouflaged helmet with a stethoscope, foliage on her back and a machine gun, before a yellow star on blue and red, lettered "Vietnam" and "Mascarones"; "Portada: Recreación sobre un cartel cubano: Javier Salinas". The back is typewritten, with a painting of Ho Chi Minh raising his fist over massed crowds, and the dedication "Al heroico pueblo de Viet-Nam, vanguardia y ejemplo en la lucha contra el imperialismo yanki. Viet-Nam, un mundo donde el hombre alcanza su dimensión más alta." Poems are by Félix Pita Rodríguez, "poeta cubano (1909), de su libro 'Viet-Nam, notas de un diario'"; songs by Silvio Rodríguez (1946) and Pablo Milanés (1943), "jóvenes compositores de Cuba"; adaptation and voices: Mascarones. Lado A: 1. "Relato de una campesina de Viet-Nam" (Félix Pita Rodríguez), closing song "Balada de Ho-Chi-Minh" by Ewan Mc Coll (Inglaterra); 2. "Su nombre puede ponerse en verso", poem by Félix Pita R., music, voice and guitar by Pablo Milanés. Lado B: 1. "Cantata a la escuela de Huong Phuc" (Félix Pita Rodríguez); 2. "La era está pariendo un corazón", words and music Silvio Rodríguez, organ Leo Brouwer, drums Enrique Pla, voice and guitar Silvio Rodríguez. [From the record sleeve and labels]