Nueva trova

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Nueva trova was a movement in Cuban music that emerged in the mid-1960s. It combined traditional folk music idioms with progressive and often politicized lyrics. Though originally and still largely Cuban, nueva trova is popular across Latin America, especially in Puerto Rico and Venezuela. While expressing progressive sentiments similar to those of nueva canción, it had the advantage of patronizing support from the Cuban government, always supporting leftist views and promoting the Cuban Revolution. During the 1960s, the genre's first Cuban stars arose, including Silvio Rodríguez, Vicente Feliú, and Pablo Milanés. At roughly the same time, Puerto Ricans like Roy Brown, Andrés Jiménez, Antonio Caban Vale and the group Haciendo Punto en Otro Son also became famous. Nueva trova included Joseíto Fernández, the writer of "Guantanamera" (a tribute to women from Guantánamo), and Celia Cruz.[1][2]

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[edit] Influences

Though inspired by American protest artists like Bob Dylan and Joan Baez, nueva trova criticized the abuses of the United States government and its allies. Other major influences include The Beatles, Chilean revivalist Violeta Parra, Uruguayan singer-songwriter Daniel Viglietti and the Catalan protest singer Joan Manuel Serrat. At approximately the same time as the rise of nueva trova, similar musical genres across the world were increasing in popularity as part of a roots revival; these involved the popularization of traditional music welded with socio-political lyrics. Nueva trova was most closely influenced by South American (especially Chilean) nueva canción, Spanish nova canço, Bolivian canto nuevo, Portuguese canto livre and nova canção, and Brazilian Tropicalismo.

Nueva trova had developed in the Pan-Latin American "new song movement" which tended to employ lyrics that were self consciously literary, formal and schooled.[3]

[edit] Activism

In both Cuba and Puerto Rico, the politicized lyrics of nueva trova were very often critical of the United States; Puerto Rican singers were especially critical of Vieques' continued use as a United States Navy training ground.

Even though Nueva Trova expressed the socio-economic issues of Cuba, some musicians chose to express these issues through Rap Cubano which is viewed as being more pure and more to the street. [4]

[edit] Some Nueva Trova members

[edit] The first generation

  • Silvio Rodríguez
  • Pablo Milanés
  • Noel Nicola
  • Vicente Feliú
  • Sara González
  • Augusto Blanca
  • Amaury Pérez
  • Lázaro García
  • Alejandro Garcia (Virulo)
  • Rafael de la Torre

[edit] The eighties generation

[edit] The last generation

[edit] External links

  1. ^ Baker, Geoffrey."Hip Hop, Revolucion:Nationatizing Rap in Cuba". Ethnomusicology.49.3(2005)368-402.
  2. ^ "Trova and Nueva trova".World Music:The Rough Guide
  3. ^ http://haciendopunto.com Haciendo Punto en Otro Son
  4. ^ Whiteley, S., Bennett, A., Hawkins, S. Music, Space and Place: Popular music and Cultural Identity. p.99
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