Misa Campesina Nicaragüense

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The Misa Campesina Nicaragüense ("Nicaraguan Peasants' Mass") is

Solentiname and first performed in 1975, its liturgical use being prohibited within a few days. It has been praised by Dorothee Sölle for fully overcoming the "theological danger of docetism".[1]

Mejía Godoy was motivated to produce a new Mass by the promulgation of the

Roman Catholic Church.[2]

Performance history

The first performance was planned for the Plaza de los Cabros in

Archbishop of Managua, Miguel Obando y Bravo
, prohibited its future performance in church. Nevertheless, the Misa Campesina Nicaragüense grew in popularity through clandestine celebrations that gradually spread throughout western Nicaragua. The recordings were circulated underground due to their repression by the Somoza dictatorship. Since the triunfo of the Sandinista Liberation Front in July, 1979, the mass has been celebrated openly, though never by the official Catholic hierarchy.

Recordings

The recordings were released on the new ENIGRAC label (Empresa Nicaragüense de Grabaciones Culturales) in 1980. The label Mantica-Waid released a CD version in December 2001 CD. The earlier Misa Popular Nicaragüense relied heavily on the son nica musical style originally from the Masaya region and popularized on the lower plains of western Nicaragua in the 1960s and 1970s. The Misa Campesina Nicaragüense broadened this musical palette to incorporate musical styles from throughout the nation, and in this sense it represents a microcosm of the many cultural regions of Nicaragua.[3] When released the LP was the first recording in the nation's history of new music utilizing musical styles from various regions of the country.[4]

Excerpt in translation

I believe in you, comrade,
Christ man, Christ worker,
victor over death.
With your great sacrifice
you made new people
for liberation.
You are risen
in every arm outstretched
to defend the people
against the exploitation of rulers;
you are alive and present in the hut,
in the factory, in the school.
I believe in your ceaseless struggle,
I believe in your resurrection.[1]

Notes

  1. ^
    ISBN 0-334-02476-5
    ), 114–5.
  2. ^ Zayda García Zeledón, "La Misa campesina de Carlos," El Nuevo Diario (Nicaragua: December 2001).
  3. ^ T.M. Scruggs: Las Misas Nicaragüenses: Popular, Campesina, y del pueblo. ISTMO 2008 "T.M. Scruggs: Las Misas Nicaragüenses: Popular, Campesina, y del pueblo". Archived from the original on 2011-07-19. Retrieved 2010-09-27.
  4. JSTOR 852736
    .

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