Pequeña oda a Vietnam

Annotation — Latin & Central American, & Caribbean Music

Poetry / spoken-word record, released in Argentina (Pincén # 0234) with writers associated with the Nueva canción latinoamericana movement. This included: Armando Tejada Gómez, born 21 April 1929 in Mendoza, Argentina, died on 3 November 1992 in Buenos Aires, Argentina; Héctor Alterio, born on 21 September 1929 in Buenos Aires, Argentina; Inda Ledesma, an actress, born 29 March 1926, in Coronel Suárez, Buenos Aires, Argentina, and died 26 January 2010 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Track titles included: "Pequeña oda a Vietnam" ("Little Ode to Vietnam"), "Viet Cong", "Informe del ultimo marine en Vietnam" ("Report of the Last Marine in Vietnam") (discussed above), and "Alerta en Vietnam" ("Alert in Vietnam"). The back of the LP said: "The songs of the Ho-Chi-Minh jail open this exemplary album and serve as a starting point to delve into these fine poetic expressions of a fighting people. The drama of Viet-Nam, which has given rise to a new dimension to human worth, to its capacity for resistance to suffering, and tempered to the maximum limit its integrity, arouses at the same time indignation and admiration, to the point that nowhere country, and where a division is drawn between…

Annotation by Justin A. Brummer

Notes

Track B4. Poems from the South and the North of Vietnam and by Tejada Gómez; the record opens with poems from Ho Chi Minh's prison diary (back cover). Discogs lists the catalogue as S.P.D. 22809.

About the artist

Poetry record by Argentinian poet Armando Tejada Gómez (born 21 April 1929 in Mendoza; died 3 November 1992 in Buenos Aires), actor Héctor Alterio (born 21 September 1929 in Buenos Aires) and actress Inda Ledesma (born 29 March 1926 in Coronel Suárez, Buenos Aires; died 26 January 2010 in Buenos Aires). [Source: Wikipedia]

Themes

Anti-War · Vietnamese Perspective

In collections

Latin & Central American, & Caribbean Music · Peace, Protest, & Anti-War Songs [War Years]