Mexican Canto Nuevo - Music, Politics, and Resistance

Mexican Canto Nuevo is a groundbreaking academic exploration of the Canto Nuevo movement, a musical and cultural phenomenon that left an indelible mark on Mexican society from the 1960s through the late 1980s. Palomares-Salas guides readers through the movement''s origins, peak, and eventual decline and sheds light on Canto Nuevo''s multifaceted aspects, from its inception during the 1968 student movement to its ideological foundations in Marxist-humanist principles, placing Canto Nuevo firmly within the broader Latin American Nueva Canción context.