Jackson joins ethnomusicologist and anthropologist T.M.
Scruggs to discuss Nicaraguan popular music in the decades leading
up to the 1979 Sandinista Revolution, as well as during the first
Sandinista government from 1979 to 1990. With a focus on the work
of FSLN-affiliated musician Carlos Mejía Godoy, we dive into the
history of the Nicaraguan political song movement that emerged in
the late-60s and early 70s and discuss how, especially after the
1972 earthquake that devastated Nicaragua’s capital of Managua,
this musical movement merged with the FSLN to form a part of its
artist-intellectual cadre. We also take a look at the FSLN’s
post-revolutionary musico-cultural policy in the 1980s, exploring
the work of the Empresa Nicaragüense de Grabaciones Artisticas y
Culturales (ENIGRAC), the state-owned record company established as
a part of the FSLN’s Ministry of Culture.
Tracklist:
Carlos & Luis Enrique Mejía Godoy - 'Que Es El FAL?'
(0:00)
Elías
Palacios - 'Aquila Indita' (12:45)
Carlos Zapata - 'Flor de mi Colina'
(17:10)
Carlos Mejía Godoy - 'Vivirás Monimbo'
(21:18)
Carlos Mejía Godoy - 'Pancho Escombros'
(26:10)
Jorge
Issac Carvalho - 'Campesino' (29:02)
Carlos Mejía Godoy - 'Los Explosivos'
(32:07)
Carlos Mejía Godoy - 'Canto de Entrada'
(41:20)
Carlos Mejía Godoy - 'Miskitu Lawana'
(44:32)
Grupo
Pancasan - 'Pancasan' (47:08)
Luis
Enrique Mejía Godoy - 'Pan con Dignidad' (49:40)
Grupo
Pancasan - 'Juventud Sandinista' (52:49)
Mario
Montenegro - 'El Gallo Ennavajado (1:10:31)
Duo
Guardabarranco -'Ya Era Santo De Nombre' (1:13:35)
Grupo
Pancasan - 'El Yankee se Va a Joder' (1:20:43)
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