On a Saturday evening earlier this year, Cal State L.A. professor Ericka Verba and her former bandmates took the stage at Santa Monica’s Church in Ocean Park to perform a tribute to the mid-20th ...

Most of what I’ve learned about Chile has come from reading novels by Chilean writers, studying the country’s political fortunes since the 1973 overthrow of Salvador Allende’s government, and the long ...

"Violeta Parra was ahead of her time, a misunderstood libertarian, emancipated and free in the most acute sense of her work and with her words," says the fierce and feminist hip-hop artist Ana… By ...

Violeta Parra grew up in poverty in rural Chile and became an internationally recognized musician, her songs covered by such luminaries as Joan Baez and Shakira. With its grand arc, her story would ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Violeta Parra was born in 1917, in the region of Chillán, in the South of Chile, ...

Chile, that thin strip of land lulled to sleep by the Pacific and the Andes, has given birth to many people that have left their mark in the hearts of millions all across the planet: the Nobel Prize ...