Identidad y paisaje en la obra poético-musical de Víctor Jara y la Nueva Canción Chilena

Abstract

This article examines the intertwining of landscape as a bearer of identity with the musical production of the Chilean New Song and, especially, with the lyrical-musical oeuvre of Víctor Jara. The study, while also applying an integrative approach, starts from a philological perspective and traces the vision of the human landscape of Chile in the lyrics of Jara and the New Song. A process that broadens and deepens the landscape heritage of Chilean popular music both geographically (horizontally) and socially (vertically). The research dedicates special interest to the singularities of Jara’s vision, whose experiences made it possible for him to identify with the people, the identities that he wished to portray and mobilize. In this way, he sang from an internal perspective the rural and urban marginality of his country. The article interprets the poetic-musical work in its historical-social background, in the context of Chilean and Latin American art.