The problem of inclusion in Chilean and Mexican New Song (1960-1990)

Session Submission Type: Panel

Abstract

This interdisciplinary panel showcases advances on three book-length projects on Chilean and Mexican Nueva Canción, the socially- and politically-engaged song movement that emerged in the mid-1960s. The three papers are further linked in their exploration of the problem of inclusion, in the sense of incorporating fully a number of key actors that have been historically left outside the documented networks of new song movements across the Americas. In particular, we focus on the inclusion of women and gay men in Chilean Nueva Canción, and in revolutionary politics more broadly; and of regional variants of Nueva Canción that depart from traditional expectations, such as the one developed in Mexico.

Sub Track

• Mass Media and Popular Culture

Session Organizer

• Daniel Party, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

Chair

• Daniel Party, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

Individual Presentations

• Víctor Jara’s Revolutionary Masculinities - Daniel Party, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

• Violeta Parra, “Madre de la Nueva Canción Chilena”: the Gendered and Generational Dimensions of a Cultural Moment and Movement - Ericka K Verba, California State University/Los Angeles