Response From The Music World
The cause of the disappeared, or Desaparecidos, of Argentina's Dirty War and the 1973 junta in Chile was powerfully raised in a song by Holly Near, "Hay Una Mujer Desaparecida". The song called out the names of some of the disappeared women, saying "The junta knows where she is hiding and dying." This song was widely heard by progressive American audiences throughout the late 1970s and 1980s, and is well known in Argentina and Chile. Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo was immortalized in the Sting song "They Dance Alone" at an Amnesty International concert in Buenos Aires in 1988 and in a concert in Buenos Aires in 1998, the Mothers appeared on stage with Sting to announce their children's names to the crowd as the song was performed. Singer and activist Joan Baez prominently featured the Mothers in her 1981 documentary There But for Fortune. Rock band U2's song, "Mothers of the Disappeared", from their 1987 album The Joshua Tree, was written about the El Salvador counterparts of the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo. The band invited the Mothers on stage at during a performance of "Mothers of the Disappeared" at Santiago, on their PopMart Tour in 1998.
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