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Music in Chile - Major Movements
Chile's musical heritage is as rich as it is diverse. With genres ranging from folk music nueva canción to modern day punk,
Chilean musicians past and present have developed a prolific accoustic culture. Below are presented some of the most prominent
movements in Chilean music, with listings of celebrities and venues in Santiago and greater Chile where you can see the music performed today.
La Nueva Cancion Chilena
The Nueva Canción Chilena is inextricably associated with Chilean president Salvador Allende Gossens (1970-1973) and his party Unidad Popular, a conglomeration of Socialist and worker's political parties striving for a national transition to Socialism. In the 60's and 70's, a great social momentum occurred all over Latin America--propelled by Fidel Castro's triumph in Cuba-as Socialism became an answer to Read More...
Punk
Punk began arriving in the Chile during the early 1980's through the privileged classes with the opportunity to travel as well as through returning exiles. They were greatly influenced by the Clash and the Dead Kennedys, both bands with political themes. The early movement was connected to the artistic vanguard, the Dadaists, who saw art as the creation of anyone anywhere. It was also a critical response to the Canto Nuevo. Read More...
Nuevo Canto
The Canto Nuevo, a type of evolution of the Nueva Cancion that had begun with bands formed between 1969 and 1973, had stronger influences towards rock coming from the U.S. and Great Britain and incorporated a wider range of rhythms and instruments from Latin America and Brazil into the "folklore" of the Nueva Cancion. Following the September 11, 1973, military coup, state policy strictly censored Read More...
Hip Hop
Though the earliest Chilean Hip Hop band, Panteras Negras, recorded in 1984, Chilean hiphop didn't really get underway until the late 1980's. Documentaries of both American ghetto repression and the break dancing scene had arrived in the 80's, and Chilean youth from marginal neighborhoods began forming break dancing schools. By the late 1990's Chilean Hip Hop was a Read More...
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