Nueva Canción Chilena en dictadura: divergencia, memoria, escuela (1973-1983)

Abstract

While New Chilean Song was reaching high levels of public exposure thanks to the exile of its musicians and the international solidarity after the coup of September 1973, in Chile it managed to overcome with difficulty the repression and censorship of divergent cultural expressions imposed by the military regime. Thus the New Song, a musical movement of social content and Latin American folk roots, was developing strategies of survival and new social functions, without the support of the music industry, but with an audience that needed it. This article discusses these dilemmas produced during the Cold War, half a century after the beginnings of the New Chilean Song.