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Luz Acu�a Aguayo in Concert
Musical Arrangements by
Carlos Cordova Q.
March 23, 7 PM
Flemington Community Centre,
25 Mount Alexander Rd.
Flemington
Donation $10
In support of the Latin American Solidarity Gathering in Australia
July 2002 with a key note speakers from Argentina, Colombia, Chile....
If you like the music and poetry inspired by Latin American New Song
Movement, get along to hear Chilean-born singer/songwriter Luz Acu�a
Aguayo's recital 'For our struggle'.
A largely self-taught musician and singer, Acu�a has performed in bands
and solo since 1968. Brought up in a peasant family in southern Chile,
Acu�a exposed to left politics at an early age and has been an activist
even since.
Following the military coup, which ousted the democratically elected
government in Chile in 1973 with the intervention of US government,
Acu�a suffered the political persecution imposed on so many leftists at
the time. She and her family all lost their jobs and many friends
disappeared. She arrived in Australia as a political refugee in 1978.
Seventeen years ago, Acu�a began composing her own songs based on these
experiences. A number of them have been published in Chilean, Spanish
and Australian publications. In 1994 she released her first cassette,
title Un Canto Latino Americano (A Latin American Song).
Acu�a's compositions proudly reflect her working-class roots and her
belief that 'struggling against injustice gives meaning to life'. They
deal with subjects ranging from the everyday, (such as her tribute song
'Mum'), to indigenous land rights ('To the Mapuche People'), refugees
('The Migrant and the Sea'), Cultural dissent ('To the Memory of a
Singer'), as well as many songs about the struggle for women's
liberation and for a better society.
Unlike much of the liberation music that has emerged from the Third
World, Acu�a's works reveal a strong internationalism, a perspective she
attributes to the influence of her parents when she was a child, and her
own observations of the Cuban revolution. In her composition 'Third
World Labourer', she sings:
If I asked where I come from,
I will answer the I am a labourer,
That in the empire of greed,
Exploitation hurts the same.
The New Song Movement produced music, which reflected a deep anger at
injustice, suffering and imperialism greed in Latin America. It is not
?feel good? music, and Acu�a's work is not exception. True to the movement's
tradition, however, her songs, and her performance of them, are also
full of hope, rebelliousness and optimism about the capacity of people
to fight for and create a better world. Acu�a paints a vision of a free,
just and joyous world/which does not tremble at the suffering of others,
/when the world ?us? means the same as ?me?.
For more information about the concert, phone (03) 9481 2273, 0401
558373, 0402 568 106
Spanish/ Castellano
Este Concierto es en Apoyo al Encuentro de solidaridad con Latinoamerica
que se realizara en Australia entre el 4 y 7 de Julio 2002, con la
asistencia de importantes representantes de las luchas populares e
ind�genas de nuestros paises, confirmados por el momento de Argentina,
Colombia y Chile, con la participaci�n a traves de Video Conferencia de
representantes de los zapatistas y del movimiento popular de Brasil,
esperamos su asistencia y apoyo a este encuentro/conferencia, esperamos
verlos, saludos y gracias Red Chilena Popular e Ind�gena Grupo de Apoyo
a las Madres de Plaza de Mayo-Argentina
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