Dr Lorna Dillon, Network Facilitator for the War and Nation Research Network in the Department of Modern Languages, has just published a book on Violeta Parra. The book is an edited volume entitled Violeta Parra: Life and Work (Tamesis Books, 2017).

Chilean cultural icon Violeta Parra was an extraordinary figure. She is best known for her contribution to the Latin American New Song movement and for her visual art, which was exhibited in the Musee des Arts Decoratifs of the Louvre gallery in 1964.

Parra spent her early career singing Mexican songs in bars and researching traditional Chilean culture. All the different phases of Parra’s life and work are discussed in this collection, with analyses of her music, paintings, sculptures, embroideries (arpilleras), and poetry. Her exhibition in the Louvre gallery and the music venue that she set up before she died, La Carpa de la Reina, are also covered.

The collection is the first book in English to consider the full extent of Parra’s accomplishments and influence.

For further details, please see Boydell and Brewer’s website