All March 8 The International Women’s Dayestablished in 1977 by the United Nations. However, Mercedes Sosa He advanced to the ephemeris and In 1969 he released Argentine womenan album dedicated exclusively to honor stories and stories of emblematic women from Argentina.
To make the avant -garde work, Sosa associated with the pianist Ariel Ramírez and the historian Félix Luna. In eight songs, the historic Argentine singer dedicates her melodies to the country’s female history, between reality and fiction.
“From the guerrilla that fought for emancipation in Alta Peru to the selfless teacher; From the poet that enriched the lyric heritage of the country to the captive that gave up returning to civilization (…) from the tucuman brave that threw boiling oil on the English invaders, in the dawn of the homeland, to the gringa whose hands populated the Chaco … ”, read the explanatory flap that the vinyls used to accompany.
The album He appeared at the Alvear Theater for five monthsto full room. In this way, Mercedes Sosa crowned his career with historical interpretations, such as “Alfonsina and El Mar”.
The lives behind the songs of “Argentina Women”
In Argentine women It unfolds A challenging range of topicsthat vary from death and struggle to earth and love. “Chaco gringa”song that opens the album, portrays a Chaco woman who also feels gringa, which symbolizes the fusion of cultures and collective effort to transform the earth. In tribute to the Chaco region, Sosa sings to that inhospitable place, which crosses obstacles to reaching peace.
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This is followed “Juana Azurduy”which deals precisely about the woman under which the subject is titled, who fought for the independence of what we know today as Bolivia. The letter highlights the courage of Azurduy, which with his leadership became a symbol of the fight against Spanish colonial oppression. “Juana Azurduy // Flor del Alto Peru // There is no other captain // more brave than you”says the song.
“With dirty hands of chalk // sowings seeds of letters // and they grow alphabet // in your master heart”Sosa describes faithful and poetic to the figure of the teacher, in “Rosarito Vera, teacher”. In the form of tribute, celebrate the love that teachers transmit to their students. Then, he takes up the conflict of culture in “Dorotea, the captive”in which the singer puts himself in the skin of the protagonist, who After being captured by the (non -indigenous) huincas claims to return with their people.
The second half of the album begins with the iconic interpretation of “Alfonsina and El Mar”which pays for the poet Alfonsina Storniwho committed suicide in the sea in 1938. Letter manages to convey the tragic beauty of its end and the deep connection of Storni with the sea, an appellant element in his poetic work: “You leave, Alfonsina, with your loneliness // What new poems did you go to look?.
To this subject it happens “Manuela, La Tucumana”whose lyrics tell the story of Manuela, a Tucuman woman who, along with other women, gets up in arms to defend her land. The figure of the protagonist symbolizes all women who, throughout history, have fought with courage, often in roles that society traditionally assigns men. In fact, the song says: “This triumph won // our women, our women // females have fought // like men, like men”.
In “Guadalupe’s letters”Sosa evokes Guadalupe Cuenca, a woman who wrote letters who never reached her beloved Mariano Morenowho had gone in a yellow frigate. She alert her husband about the dangers she would find in London and tell her what was happening in Buenos Aires, Without knowing that he was a widow. The letters ended up publishing half a century later. “Oh, Guadalupe // Yours have become clouds”.
The album closes with “At Mariquita’s house”in which national identity and patriotic struggle for freedom are honored. The narrator, a “China del Alto”, Account in the lyrics that run into a party in Mariquita’s house, referring to Sánchez de Thompsonwho housed great patriotic meetings.
Source: Ambito
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