Saturday, March 8, 2008

Mujeres excepcionales

Esta es mi lista de algunas mujeres excepcionales.




Esta famosa canción es un emblema de la libertad y de la expresión del deseo. Aunque la voz lírica es una muchacha, fue escrita por un hombre (Kriss Kristofferson). La más brillante interpretación es, por su puesto, la de Janis Joplin quien, según dicen, alguna vez elegida "el chico" más feo de su escuela. La libertad es otra palabra por 'no hay nada qué perder'.


ME AND BOBBY MCGEE

Busted flat in Baton Rouge waiting for a train
And I's feeling nearly as faded as my jeans.
Bobby thumbed a diesel down just before it rained,
It rode us all the way to New Orleans.
I pulled my harpoon out of my dirty red bandanna,
I was playing soft while Bobby sang the blues.
Windshield wipers slapping time, I was holding Bobby's hand in mine,
We sang every song that driver knew.
Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose,
Nothing don't mean nothing honey if it ain't free, now now.
And feeling good was easy, Lord, when he sang the blues,
You know feeling good was good enough for me,
Good enough for me and my Bobby McGee.
From the Kentucky coal mines to the California sun,
Hey, Bobby shared the secrets of my soul.
Through all kinds of weather, through everything we done,
Hey Bobby baby? kept me from the cold.
One day up near Salinas, Lord, I let him slip away,
He's looking for that home and I hope he finds it,
But I'd trade all of my tomorrows for one single yesterday
To be holding Bobby's body next to mine.
Freedom is just another word for nothing left to lose,
Nothing, that's all that Bobby left me, yeah,
But feeling good was easy, Lord, when he sang the blues,
Hey, feeling good was good enough for me, hmm hmm,
Good enough for me and my Bobby McGee.
Laa la la Bobby McGee.
Hey now Bobby now, Bobby McGee, yeah.Lord,
I'm calling my lover, calling my man,
I said I'm calling my lover just the best I can,
C'mon, hey now Bobby yeah, hey now Bobby McGee, yeah,Lordy Lordy Lordy Lordy Lordy Lordy Lordy Lord.

Otra canción feminista escrita por un hombre es Candy Says, de Lou Reed y que aquí interpreta Antony:


Candy says I've come to hate my body
and all that it requires in this world
Candy says I'd like to know completely
what others so discreetly talk about
I'm gonna watch the blue birds fly over my shoulder
I'm gonna watch them pass me by
Maybe when I'm older
What do you think I'd see
If I could walk away from me
Candy says I hate the quiet places
that cause the smallest taste of what will be
Candy says I hate the big decisions
that cause endless revisions in my mind
I'm gonna watch the blue birds fly over my shoulder
I'm gonna watch them pass me by
Maybe when I'm older
What do you think I'd see
If I could walk away from me.


3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Una pregunta: por que Sabine MacCormack?

Daniel Salas said...

Sabine MacCormack es una gran filóloga e historiadora formada en las letras clásicas y que luego se ha dedicado al mundo andino. Sus investigaciones van a contracorriente de corrientes dominantes como la etnohistoria y los estudios postcoloniales. Sus trabajos están muy bien fundamentados en documentos y en el conocimiento de la escritura.

Anonymous said...

Bueno, que lindo que hayas incluido a Janis y muchas gracias. Una de las pocas cosas que no me cansan en esta vida es ver y oir a Janis. Me recarga, es como un electroshock que se dispara por la espina, y cualquier momento o pensamiento tedioso es fulminado.
Ese unico dia recorriendo San Francisco, habia que llegar antes que nada a Haight y Ashbury st. para devorarlo todo con los ojos y con los poros (que es bien lindo asi)e imaginar y recrear a Janis aproximandose -sonriente y stone- como si nada a todo.