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Nueva canción, (Spanish: “new song”) in Cuba called nueva trova, 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 have been inspired largely by the region’s rural traditions. Distinctive features Nueva canción embraces a broad spectrum of musical styles that have been consciously crafted as an emblem of the socially, economically, and politically marginalized peoples of Latin America and their struggle for social justice. The guitar, an instrument that has long been associated with folk music throughout Latin America, is central to the tradition. It is usually joined in performance by a number of indigenous—especially Andean—instruments, such as zampoñas (panpipes), quenas (end-blown flutes), and the charango, a distinctive plucked lute with a rounded back traditionally made from the shell of an armadillo. Rhythmically, nueva canción draws much of its material from regional dance forms such as the cueca of Argentina and Chile and the huayño of Peru, Bolivia, and Ecuador. Melodies are often based on a pentatonic (five-pitch) scale, in the manner of much regional Latin American music, and they frequently oscillate between major and minor modes, which is characteristic of many Andean musical traditions. Nueva canción texts, often set in traditional Hispanic poetic forms such as the 10-line décima, are usually dense with metaphor and replete with imagery drawn from rural life and lore. With some notable exceptions, the words to most songs are not blatantly political. Nevertheless, they clearly cultivate social awareness, promote a sense of social responsibility, and, ultimately, rally their audiences against the sources of social inequity.
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Nueva canción, (Spanish: “new song”) in Cuba called nueva trova, 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 have been inspired largely by the region’s rural traditions. Distinctive features Nueva canción embraces a broad spectrum of musical styles that have been consciously crafted as an emblem of the socially, economically, and politically marginalized peoples of Latin America and their struggle for social justice. The guitar, an instrument that has long been associated with folk music throughout Latin America, is central to the tradition. It is usually joined in performance by a number of indigenous—especially Andean—instruments, such as zampoñas (panpipes), quenas (end-blown flutes), and the charango, a distinctive plucked lute with a rounded back traditionally made from the shell of an armadillo. Rhythmically, nueva canción draws much of its material from regional dance forms such as the cueca of Argentina and Chile and the huayño of Peru, Bolivia, and Ecuador. Melodies are often based on a pentatonic (five-pitch) scale, in the manner of much regional Latin American music, and they frequently oscillate between major and minor modes, which is characteristic of many Andean musical traditions. Nueva canción texts, often set in traditional Hispanic poetic forms such as the 10-line décima, are usually dense with metaphor and replete with imagery drawn from rural life and lore. With some notable exceptions, the words to most songs are not blatantly political. Nevertheless, they clearly cultivate social awareness, promote a sense of social responsibility, and, ultimately, rally their audiences against the sources of social inequity.
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