The militant song movement in Latin America
Subtitle: Chile, Uruguay, and Argentina
By: edited by Pablo Vila
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Lanham, Maryland
Language: eng
Number of pages: 282
ISBN-13: 9780739183243; 9780739183250
Subjects: Political ballads and songs; History and criticism; Popular music
Description: Analyzes the complex relationship that the militant song movement established between the political content of lyrics and the musical and performative aspects of the most popular songs of the period, while highlighting the contributions of the movement's most important musicians.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-266) and index.
Table of contents: title: New song in Chile : half a century of musical activism / Nancy Morris; title: "Remembrance is not enough ..." ("no basta solo el recuerdo ...") : the cantata popular ; Santa María de Iquique 40 years after its release / Eileen Karmy Bolton; title: The Chilean new song's cueca larga / Laura Jordán González; title: Modern foundations of Uruguayan popular music / Abril Trigo; title: Popular music and the avant-garde in Uruguay ; The second canto popular generation in the 1970s / Camila Juárez; title: The rhythm of values : poetry and music in Uruguay, 1960-85 / María L. Figueredo; title: Atahualpa yupanqui : the Latin American precursor of the militant song movement / Carlos Molinero and Pablo Vila; title: A brief history of the militant song movement in Argentina / Carlos Molinero and Pablo Vila; title: The revolutionary patria and its new (wo)men : gendered tropes of political agency  and popular identity in Argentine folk music of the long 1960s / Illa Carrillo Rodríguez.