Mexican Canto Nuevo
Music, Politics, and Resistance
Series: Currents in Latin American and Iberian Music;
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 22 July 2025
- ISBN 9780197772706
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages334 pages
- Size 241x167x29 mm
- Weight 640 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 55 figures 606
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Short description:
Mexican Canto Nuevo is a groundbreaking academic exploration of the Canto Nuevo movement, a musical and cultural phenomenon that left an indelible mark on Mexican society from the 1960s through the late 1980s. Palomares-Salas guides readers through the movement's origins, peak, and eventual decline and sheds light on Canto Nuevo's multifaceted aspects, from its inception during the 1968 student movement to its ideological foundations in Marxist-humanist principles, placing Canto Nuevo firmly within the broader Latin American Nueva Canción context.
MoreLong description:
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 Canción, Cuban Nueva Trova, and Uruguayan Canto Popular, reasserting Mexican Canto Nuevo in current academic discussions on the pan-Latin American Nueva Canción movement of the 1960s-1980s. The chapters offer much-needed chronological analysis of main events, peñas, artists' organizations, record labels, festivals, and albums that allow the reader to make sense of the politics, aesthetics, and goals of a broad and multifaceted movement that spanned over two decades. Notably, Palomares-Salas clarifies the complex relationship between the Mexican state and Canto Nuevo, clearly explaining the climate of hostile tolerance in which it developed. The book thoroughly explores the work of the movement's most prominent and influential singers, singer-songwriters, and groups, among them Los Folkloristas, Judith Reyes, José de Molina, León Chávez Teixeiro, Óscar Chávez, Los Nakos, Margarita Bauche, Enrique Ballesté, Amparo Ochoa, La Peña Móvil, Gabino Palomares, and several others.
A crucial academic resource and a must-read for those passionate about Mexican and Latin American music, politics, and culture, readers will gain a chronological perspective on key events, artists, and organizations that defined the politics and aesthetics of the Canto Nuevo movement.
A much-needed contribution to existing scholarship on political song in Latin America. In accessible prose, Palomares-Salas provides a comprehensive overview of the aesthetics, origins, and heyday of the Mexican Nueva Canción movement as well as the music of its most acclaimed performers.
Table of Contents:
Setting the Stage: Rationale, Scholarly Influences, and Book Outline
Toward a Definition of Mexican Canto Nuevo: Features, Principles, and Themes
Mexican Canto Nuevo's Calls and Responses: Rock 'n' Roll, Folklorization, and Latin American Nueva Canción
1968: The Birth of Mexican Canto Nuevo
The Rising (1969-1976)
Consolidation (1977-1981)
Peak and Decline (1982-1989)
