Desapariciones

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Title

Desapariciones

Subject

Argentina
Madres de la Plaza de Mayo
Dirty War
time: 20th century

Description

Forced disappearances were a key tactic of various dictatorships of the Americas. The song follows the story of a man and woman, ordinary people who have disappeared, and the fight their family engages in to try and locate them. The final stanza asks where they could be found and answers: in either the field or the water. Water can be a references death flights (vuelos de la muerte) used in Argentina's Dirty War, in which victims were tossed into either the Rio de la Plata or the Atlantic Ocean by aircraft. The song can also be used to teach about movements such as the Madres de la Plaza de Mayo (Mothers of May Plaza) in Argentina, a group of women that came together to lcoate their children and grandchildren.

Creator

songwriter: Rubén Blades

Date

1984

Rights

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Language

Spanish

Type

genre: nueva canción
genre: salsa
genre: latin jazz

Coverage

Americas
Argentina

Is Referenced By

Zien, Katherine A. "Staging Sovereignty and Memory In The Panama Canal Handover." In Sovereign Acts: Performing Race, Space, and Belonging in Panama and the Canal Zone, 149-83. New Brunswick, Camden; Newark, New Jersey; London: Rutgers University Press, 2017. Accessed June 25, 2020. www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt1tm7jm0.12.

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