Musica Humana blues

05/30/2026

Nûdem Durak.

"FREE NÛDEM DURAK” This is the story of a guitar on a journey, a lot of good friends, a young Kurdish woman in prison, until she is scheduled for release in ...

05/30/2026

The 100 Best Protest Songs of All Time

From Pete Seeger and Billie Holiday to Beyoncé and Rage Against the Machine, musicians across genres have spoken truth to power through their songs

A leader of Chile’s nueva canción movement, singer-songwriter and activist Victor Jara mixed socialist ideas and personal observations, making him a voice to the country’s underclass and a folk sensation the world over. Gently plucked and tenderly sung, “Manifiesto” is an ode to music’s p...

05/30/2026

In the days following the military coup in Chile on Sept. 11, 1973, the folk singer and guitarist Víctor Jara was detained and taken to Estadio Chile, a sports arena converted into a mass detention center by the Pinochet dictatorship. There, he was tortured and executed.

His torturers shattered his hands and paraded him around the stadium, taunting him to try to play his guitar. This brutality was symbolic. Jara was a public figure, a musician whose work had become intertwined with democratic aspiration and uplifting the working class, so much that it was said that his music was more powerful than a thousand machine guns. Silencing him was meant to silence the masses — but it did not.

Jara’s songs endured, carried by recordings, memory, and communities both in Chile and abroad. The stadium where he was killed now bears his name. His music continues to be sung generations later, from everyone to Joan Baez to Bruce Springsteen to even Bad Bunny.

Unfortunately, accountability under the law tends to arrive long after an authoritarian regime is deposed, as it did in Jara’s case. There, after decades of searching, the responsible lieutenant was located in Florida having fled Chile after the collapse of the regime. Together with the Center for Justice and Accountability, my colleagues and I brought a civil case against him in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida under the Alien Tort Statue and Torture Victim Protection Act for arbitrary detention, torture, extrajudicial killing, and crimes against humanity. . . .

Christina Hioureas, a New York-based lawyer specializing in international law, shares what we can learn from resistance music through the decades.

05/30/2026

En los días posteriores al golpe militar en Chile del 11 de septiembre de 1973, el cantante y guitarrista folk Víctor Jara fue detenido y trasladado al Estadio Chile, un recinto deportivo convertido en centro de detención masiva por la dictadura de Pinochet. Allí fue torturado y ejecutado.

Sus torturadores le destrozaron las manos y lo hicieron desfilar por el estadio, burlándose de él para que intentara tocar la guitarra. Esta brutalidad era simbólica. Jara era una figura pública, un músico cuya obra se había entrelazado de tal manera con las aspiraciones democráticas y la lucha de la clase trabajadora, que se decía que su música era más poderosa que mil ametralladoras. Silenciarlo significaba silenciar a las masas, pero no se logró.

Las canciones de Jara perduraron, transmitidas a través de grabaciones, recuerdos y comunidades tanto en Chile como en el extranjero. El estadio donde fue asesinado lleva ahora su nombre, y su música sigue cantándose generaciones después, desde Joan Baez hasta Bruce Springsteen, pasando incluso por Bad Bunny.

Desafortunadamente, la rendición de cuentas ante la ley suele llegar mucho después de la caída de un régimen autoritario, como ocurrió en el caso de Jara. Allí, tras décadas de búsqueda, se localizó al teniente responsable en Florida, tras haber huido de Chile después del colapso del régimen. Junto con el Centro para la Justicia y la Rendición de Cuentas, mis colegas y yo interpusimos una demanda civil contra él ante el Tribunal de Distrito de los Estados Unidos para el Distrito Medio de Florida, en virtud de la Ley de Reclamaciones por Agravios contra Extranjeros y la Ley de Protección de Víctimas de Tortura, por detención arbitraria, tortura, ejecuciones extrajudiciales y crímenes de lesa humanidad.

Y así, aunque la rendición de cuentas a veces llegue tarde, la música forma parte de la inspiración que, en última instancia, impulsa a una sociedad a rechazar el régimen y exigirle responsabilidades, para avanzar hacia la justicia transicional. . . .

Christina Hioureas, abogada de Nueva York especializada en derecho internacional, comparte lo que podemos aprender de la música de resistencia a lo largo de las décadas

05/27/2026

Katie Spencer. Songwriter & guitarist.

Experience a stunning live acoustic performance from Katie Spencer recorded in the Tom Sands Guitars studio. Katie performs on her signature Tom Sands Model ...

05/25/2026

Sounds for a quiet cloud, a loud heart, a soft word.

Japanese Dark Jazz 1970s | She Wore a Black KimonoA late-night journey through the smoky jazz bars and rain-slicked streets of Showa-era Japan. 21 tracks of ...

05/23/2026

Música terrenal

05/23/2026

Kadhja Bonet. Live.

🔥 Ladies & gentlemen, we present KADHJA BONET live on ! 🍿Enjoy and don’t forget to subscribe, like & share the love! 📷 INSTAGRAM: https:/...

05/19/2026

The sound of a dream yet to be fulfilled. The homeland that is free of military, policing and prisons and concentration camps and all the disappeared return.