Balada de Ho-Chi-Minh [Live]

Mascarones · Cuba

Balada de Ho-Chi-Minh [Live] – Ewan MacColl (Sleeve (front))

Artist: Ewan MacColl
Title: Balada de Ho-Chi-Minh [Live]
Release: Vietnam mascarones
Label: Mascarones
Format: LP · Album
Language: English
Country: Cuba
Songwriter: Ewan MacColl
Genre: Hispanic Music · Nueva canción latinoamericana
Primary theme: Vietnamese Patriotic

Notes

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…

About the artist

English folk singer and songwriter, born 25 January 1915 in Salford, England; died 22 October 1989 in London. [Source: Wikipedia]

Themes

Anti-War · Vietnamese Patriotic · Vietnamese Perspective · Ho Chi Minh

In collections

Latin & Central American, & Caribbean Music

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