TO THE BEAT OF MEMORIE

To the Beat of Memory: Tradition, Street and Resistance in Los Diablos Rojos de Víctor Jara

Abstract

This article constitutes an analytical proposal to approach the performative intervention of the group Los Diablos Rojos de Víctor Jara for the purpose of rethinking the possibilities of a political art in times of extreme commodification and depoliticization of historical figures. The text will address the hidden signals of the phenomenon that occurs with its uprising in the streets of Santiago once a year in commemoration of the murder of Chilean singer-songwriter, based on the concepts of synchronic and diachronic memory, and resistance. Therefore, we will revisit the traumatic wound contained in his image, the tradition of the inverted processions of the West and, finally, the hybridization of both memories that make up a practice of resistance emancipated from traditional lines.