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Nueva canción, a genre of pan-Latin American popular music, best known for propelling a powerful populist political movement—especially in Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, and Cuba—during the 1960s and ’70s. The music’s instrumentation, rhythmic character, melodic structure, and textual form and content.
Nueva canción draws heavily upon Andean music, música negra, Spanish music, Cuban music and other Latin American folklore. Most songs feature the guitar , and often the quena , zampoña , charango or cajón .
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Yet in every variation of nueva canción, emphasis on the use of traditional music remained. In Cuba, for example, where nueva canción became better known as trova or nueva trova, artists such as Carlos Puebla, Silvio Rodríguez, and Pablo Milanés drew upon the vast wealth of Cuban and Afro-Cuban rhythms to express their poetic calls for ...
Virginia Gorlinski. Nueva canción - Latin America, Protest Music, 1980s: The audience (or advocates) of nueva canción continued to expand in the early 1970s as the music became an increasingly potent political force. In Argentina, Mercedes Sosa emerged as one of the most popular artists, passionately reinterpreting the songs of others to ...
Dec 22, 2010 · The Nueva Canción was the revolutionary song of Chile and other Latin American countries, and its strength lay in its loyalty to the people and delivery of its political message and social change. In adhering to the social message within the music – fighting injustice, oppression and dictatorships, several artists of Nueva Canción suffered ...
Nueva Cancion ("New Song") isn't exactly a distinct musical style, but a conglomeration of South American songwriters placing a renewed emphasis on intelligent (usually political) commentary within their songs.
Nueva Canción: Musical Characteristics and Performers. Identify and describe how performers (cantautores) have used music elements and expressive characteristics in their interpretations of nueva canción in Puerto Rico, Latin America, and the Caribbean. 30+ minutes; Fiestas and Nueva Canción: A People's Movement
