E10 Jazz Musician/Historian Paul Ruffner Talks About Music & Revolution

This conversation with historian and jazz musician Paul Ruffner shows the vital role music played in the movement that got Salvadore Allende elected in Chile and also how threatening music was to Pinochet’s coup that ousted him and also why it has been so hard to get Every Body Music going here in the United States. This conversation made me wonder if social change without music is really social change at all. Listen closely and click the links in the description. You will find yourself singing if you really listen to yourself.

Here are some amazing links Paul sent me connected to our conversation:

This is the first album where a whole political party's platform was put to music https://youtu.be/mqyzYx-p-PE

The theme song to Popular Unity, 1970 election campaign https://youtu.be/57tWbzDdx2s

El Derecho de Vivir en Paz ''The Right to Live in Peace  https://youtu.be/XkXise2bHE0

The Burning Sun Up Above  https://youtu.be/s2E9AXJozGw

The people, united, will never be defeated https://youtu.be/w8UGs0rdhq8

This is V. Jara's first political album https://youtu.be/i9z2d_1ESto