Marti Jose: Guantanamera

Name: Guantanamera
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Author: Marti Jose

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Author: Marti Jose
Publisher: Šareni dućan
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Condition: Odlično
Code: 56304

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Guantanamera

Marti Jose

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Jose Marti: Guantanamera

José Martí was a Cuban intellectual and poet, a tireless freedom fighter and a great humanist. He published several collections of poetry and a novel; he also wrote stories, dramas, chronicles, criticism, essays, aphorisms... and also engaged in translation and pedagogical work. In addition to his literary and journalistic work, Martí was also a politically engaged, imprisoned and persecuted revolutionary, he fought for Cuban independence and died in battle in 1895, at the age of 42.
In his poetry, Martí leaned towards the father of free verse, Walt Whitman, and exerted a great influence on modernist poets at the turn of the 20th century. Outside of Cuba, he is best known for the song Guantanamera, which was made a world hit by the American band The Sandpipers in 1966, and was later covered by many famous musicians such as: Joan Baez, Jose Feliciano, Los Lobos, Gipsy Kings, Compay Segundo, Zucchero... However, folk musician Pete Seeger probably did the most for the popularity of the song (and the creation of this book), who "discovered" the forgotten song, arranged it and sang it at his concerts, and in the announcements he usually mentioned the author of the text José Martí (recommendation for listening: Pete Seeger & Arlo Guthrie, Together in Concert).
Guantanamera (Girl from Guantánamo) is today considered a Cuban patriotic song, and Martí a Cuban hero and one of the main protagonists in the South American struggle for freedom and a forerunner of modernism in South American poetry.

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