As a poetic celebration of life and resistance, nueva canción's roots lie in Latin American protests and popular struggles from the 1960s to the present. It sprouted everywhere from Chile to Cuba, in Central American nations like El Salvador and Nicaragua, and in barrios from Mexico to La Misión. Brave musicians combined indigenous instruments and folk rhythms with lyrics at once political and personal in their calls for justice, equality, and an end to U.S. imperialism, and the "new song" movement was... More >>>