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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 ( European Spanish: [ˈnweβa kanˈθjon], Latin American Spanish: [ˈnweβa kanˈsjon]; 'new song') is a left-wing social movement and musical genre in Latin America and the Iberian peninsula, characterized by folk -inspired styles and socially committed lyrics.
" It was a powerful statement about the role of music in social and political change that had fueled the emerging popular musical movement in South America known as nueva canción (New Song Movement).
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 deliver a powerful ...
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.
La Nueva canción fue un movimiento musical de izquierda de América Latina e Iberia que apareció más o menos al mismo tiempo —a mediados de la década de los años 1960— en varios países del continente.
Sep 17, 2008 · La Nueva Canción was a music genre and later a protest song movement that arose throughout Latin American countries in the late 1950s. It featured socially conscious lyrics that usually characterized poverty, empowerment, democracy, human rights and Latin American identity.
