Ghost dances

Question 1

What are they key themes found in ghost dances?

Answer 1

-Día de los Muertos
-Torture of Pinochet’s bloody coup leading to thousands being killed
-oppression of ordinary people
-human rights

Question 2

What is the context behind “Ghost dances”

Answer 2

-Victor Jara was a Chilean singer who had been tortured and killed by Pinochet’s bloody coup which seized power in Chile in 1973.
- It could be interpreted that the couple within Ghost Dances is loosely based off of Victor and his wife Joan.
-Pinochet’s bloody coup was a mass murder of people who did not support Pinochet.