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 Chile and spreading then to 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 español.
[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.
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.
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 under General Augusto Pinochet. 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. Following the deposition of Pinochet, the Estadio Chile 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] Musicians
[edit] Nueva Canción: Argentina
- Mercedes Sosa
- Atahualpa Yupanqui
- Leon Gieco
- Víctor Heredia
- Pedro Aznar
[edit] Nueva Canción: Brazil
[edit] Nueva Canción: Canary Islands
- Pedro Guerra
- Taburiente
- Taller Canario
- Caco Senante
- Manolo Almeida/Nueva Semilla
[edit] Nueva Canción: Chile
- Rolando Alarcon
- Aparcoa
- Payo Grondona
- Illapu
- Inti-Illimani
- Víctor Jara
- Los Jaivas
- Patricio Manns
- Julio Numhauser
- Sergio Ortega
- Ángel Parra
- Isabel Parra
- Violeta Parra
- Héctor Pavez
- Quilapayún
- Osvaldo "Gitano" Rodriguez
- Horacio Salinas
- Schwenke & Nilo
- Jose Luis Sepulveda
- Jose Séves
- Tiempo Nuevo
- Francisco Villa
[edit] Nueva Canción: El Salvador
- Cutumay Camones
- Banda Tepehuani
- Yolocamba Ita
- Los Torogoces
[edit] Nueva Canción: Guatemala
- Alux Nahual
- Canto General
[edit] Nueva Canción: Nicaragua
- Pancasán
- Grupo Mancotal
- Luis Enríque Mejía Godoy
- Carlos Mejía Godoy
- Guardabarranco
[edit] Nueva Canción: Paraguay
- Horacio Guarani
[edit] Nueva Canción: Puerto Rico
- Haciendo Punto en Otro Son
- Roy Brown, Aires Bucaneros
[edit] Nueva Canción: Uruguay
- Alfredo Zitarrosa
- Los Olimareños
- Daniel Viglietti
[edit] Nueva Canción: Venezuela
- Alí Primera
- Soledad Bravo
- Los Guaraguao
[edit] Nueva Trova: Cuba
- Silvio Rodríguez
- Pablo Milanés
- Carlos Puebla
- Sara González
- Noel Nicola
- Vicente Feliú
- Carlos Varela
- Augusto Blanca
[edit] Nueva Canción: Perú
- Tiempo Nuevo
[edit] Canto Nuevo: México
- Alejandro Filio
- Fernando Delgadillo
- Gabino Palomares
- Amparo Ochoa
- Mexicanto
