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CUBA

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• Trova (19th century)• Nueva Trova (1967-68)

What is “trova”?

• Itinerant musicians from the 19th century.• Their profession was singing with a guitar.• Sung their own songs.

Founders of ‘trova’ music

• Carlos López (1856-1918): “Tristezas” (1889)• Sindo Garay (1867-1968): “Retorna”• José ‘Chicho’ Ibáñez (1875-1981): “Yo

era dichoso” (1919)

What is “nueva trova”?

• 1967/68 (after the Cuban Revolution [1959])• Guitar was the main instrument used.• Content was political.• Lyrics attempt to escape the banalities of life.

Founders of “nueva trova”

• Silvio Rodríguez (1946): Ojalá• Pablo Milanés (1943): Versos sencillos [by

José Martí] (1973)

South Cone“Nueva canción chilena” (Chile)“Nuevo cancionero” (Argentina)

NUEVA CANCION

“Nueva Canción”

Originated in Chile in 1960.Latin American Folk Music.Mix of Latin American and Iberian folk

music.Socially committed music. Played a powerful role in the social

upheavals in Portugal, Spain and Latin America during the 1970s and 1980s.

Chile

• "The Chilean New Song" (1960)• Violeta Parra (1917-67)• Isabel & Angel Parra created “Centros

Culturales”• General Pinochet’s coup d’état in

September 11th, 1973.• Victor Jara (1932-73)• 1969 “The 1st Festival of The Chilean New

Song”

Violeta Parra (1917-67)

• Founder of the Chilean New Song or “nueva canción chilena.

• 1966, album “Ultimas composiciones” (The Last Compositions) “Gracias a la vida” (Thanks to Life) was her most well-known song.

• “Gracias a la Vida” popularized in Argentina by Mercedes Sosa, in Brazil by Elis Regina and later in the US by Joan Baez.

Fragment of(Thanks to Life)

Thanks to life, which has given me so much It gave me two bright stars that when I open them, I perfectly distinguish the black from white And in the sky above, her starry backdrop And within the multitudes the man I love

Victor Jara (1932-73)

• 1960s sang in La Peña de los Parra.• 1969, “The 1st Festival of The Chilean New

Song”• Most well-known song “Te recuerdo amanda” (I

remember you Amanda)• 1970, Spoke on Salvador Allende's behalf during

political campaign.• September 12th detained by Chilean Army, in jail

he wrote a poema “Estadio Chile” (1973)

“Nuevo cancionero”

• Argentina, Manifiesto Fundacional de “Nuevo Cancionero” (1963)

• Artists and poets (musico-literal).• It is a rediscovery of folk music and indigenous

traditions.• Atahualpa Yupanqui and Buenaventura Luna

influential folklorists.• Internal urban migration that brought rural

Argentines to the capital of Buenos Aires changed the façade of Argentina.

“Nuevo cancionero”

• “Nuevo cancionero” proposed to develop a national song that overcome the dominance of tango-folklore in Argentine national music and the rejection of pure commercialism.

• Instead “Nuevo cancionero” sought to embrace of institutions that encouraged critical thinking and the open exchange of ideas.

Nuevo Cancionero's most famous singers

• Mercedes Sosa (1935-2009)• Atahualpa Yupanqui (1908-92)

Mercedes Sosa (1935-2009)

• 1995, won the Diamond Konex Award most important personality in the Popular Music in Argentina.

• Latin Grammy Award for Best Folk Album in 2000 ("Misa Criolla"), 2003 ("Acústico"), and 2006 ("Corazón Libre")

• 2009, her album Cantora 1 won two awards at the Latin Grammy Awards.

Atahualpa Yupanqui (1908-92)

• 1950Contract with "Chant Du Monde", the recording company that published his first LP in Europe, "Minero Soy" (I am a Miner).

• Won first prize for Best Foreign Disc at the Charles Cros Academy.

• Nickname was Don Ata.

Mexico

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