Nueva canción

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Nueva Canción (Spanish for 'new song') was a movement in Latin American music that emerged in the mid-1960s, taking root in South America, especially Chile and other Andean countries. It combined traditional Latin American folk music idioms and some had popular (esp. British) rock music, with progressive and often politicized lyrics. It would gain great popularity throughout Latin America and sometimes called a precursor to Rock en Espanol.

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[edit] Characteristics

"La Nueva Canción" also known as the "New Song Movement" is a type of protest/social song. Its lyrics charactaristically talk about poverty, empowerment, the Unidad Popular, imperialism, democracy, human rights, and religion. There are some hundreds of songs with influences from British and American pop rock that was popular with college youths.

The '73 Chilean coup impacted the genre's growth in Chile, the country where it was most popular, because the whole musical movement was forced to go underground. During the days of the coup, Victor Jara, a well known singer, songwriter and maybe the most popular figure of Nueva Canción, was tortured and killed by the new rightist military regime. Other groups, such as Inti-Illimani and Quilapayún found safety outside the country. The military government under General Pinochet ruled until 1989 and went as far as to ban many traditional Andean instruments, in order to suppress the Nueva Canción movement.fact Following the deposition of Pinochet, the national soccer stadium in Santiago de Chile where Victor Jara was murdered bears his name.

Most songs feature the guitar, and often the quena, zampoña, charango or cajón. The lyrics are typically in Spanish, with some indigenous or local words mixed in.

While Chile has produced the largest number of Nueva Canción artists, its popularity has been great in almost all Spanish speaking Latin American countries, and it enjoyed some popularity in Spain during the 1970s.

[edit] History

Nueva canción largely draws upon Andean music, Música negra, Spanish music, Cuban music and other Latin American folkore. The most important source for nueva canción, however, is Chilean cueca, a rural song-form.

Its legacy is also vigent in latin pop music. Artists like Franco de Vita, Juan Luis Guerra and Ricardo Arjona has taken La Nueva Canción as an influence to their music mixing with their personal styles, such as minor admixture of Latin folk with 1960's and 1970's rock and roll music.

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[edit] Nueva Canción: Argentina

[edit] Nueva Canción: Brazil

[edit] Nueva Canción: Uruguay

[edit] Nueva Canción: Chile

[edit] Nueva Trova: Cuba

[edit] Nueva Canción: El Salvador

  • Cutumay Camones
  • Banda Tepehuani
  • Yolocamba Ita
  • Los Torogoces

[edit] Nueva Canción: Nicaragua

[edit] Canto Nuevo: México

  • Alejandro Filio
  • Fernando Delgadillo
  • Gabino Palomares
  • Amparo Ochoa
  • Mexicanto

[edit] Nueva Canción: Venezuela

[edit] Nueva Canción: Paraguay

  • Horacio Guarani

[edit] Nueva Canción: Canary Islands

[edit] Nova Cançó: Catalunya

[edit] Nueva Canción: Dominican Republic

[edit] Nueva Canción: Puerto Rico

  • Haciendo Punto en Otro Son
  • Roy Brown, Aires Bucaneros

[edit] Nueva Canción: Guatemala

  • Ricardo Arjona
  • Alux Nahual
  • Canto General
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