‘All around me a voice was sounding,
the land was made for you and me’
Pete Seegar
singers. But it’s important to rescue any protest music in South America. For
example, it exists in Cuba a very long tradition of compositors. We know their
movement like ‘the new cuban trova’. If you pretend to know the protest music, you
need stopping and knowing them.
It’s very common in the protest music that the writers refer to the wars in the
world, the division between poverty and richness. Such as Bob Dylan’s famous song
Blowin’ in the wind. We know a lot of version of this song. In the same lane, we can
talk about Pete Seegar’s song This land is your land.
However, in the case of Latin America, the protest song refers to topic like racism,
gender fight, domestic policies and, of course, against USA. Like I said, the most
popular singers are from Cuba. Silvio Rodriguez and Pablo Milanes are very popular
in all countries. Happen the same with American composition: the poetry is present
in their songs.
Finally, in Latin America, a very important aspect with the protest songs is about
their lyrics themes. People tend to confuse it with romantic and loving songs.
But the experts know that this happens because the writers need to hide the real
intention: to protest against his own regime. Probably, it isn’t one no democratic
government. Of course, they are singing their songs, because we need to know that
the land was made for you and me, for us.
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