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Mexican Canto Nuevo: Music, Politics, and Resistance

by Claudio Palomares-Salas

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A history of song and political movements in Mexico

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A history of song and political movements in Mexico

Claudio Palomares-Salas traces Canto Nuevo from its emergence around the 1968 student movement through its peak and decline in the late 1980s. The book connects musical history with the movement’s political and cultural setting, examining the Marxist-humanist principles associated with its lyrics and participants, alongside folklorization in its development. It also places Canto Nuevo in conversation with other militant song movements, including Chilean Nueva Canción. The focus gives readers a framework for understanding how musical practice, political ideas, and cultural processes intersected in Mexico across these decades.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers interested in Mexican music and cultural history.
  • Those studying music’s relationship to politics and social movements.
  • Readers interested in Latin American protest-song traditions.

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Canto NuevoMusic and politicsMarxist-humanist thoughtFolklorizationMilitant song movements

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Mexican Canto Nuevo: Music, Politics, and Resistance explores the vibrant history of Canto Nuevo, a musical and cultural movement that influenced Mexican music, politics, and culture from the 1960s to the late 1980s. Author Claudio Palomares-Salas delves into every aspect of Canto Nuevo's evolution, from its origins during the 1968 student movement to its peak and eventual decline two decades later.

Palomares-Salas offers a comprehensive, rigorous, and easy-to-follow path to understand Canto Nuevo in all its complexity, discussing Canto Nuevo's nomenclature and temporality, the Marxist-humanist principles that defined the movement's lyrical production and governed the lives of its participants, as well as the folklorization processes that were at the core of Canto Nuevo's origins and development. He examines Canto Nuevo's relationship with other militant song movements, such as Chilean Nueva Canci
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