In this article, I follow the discourses elaborated around música latinoamericana («Latin American music»), a broad musical category encompassing a wide range of Latin American —but especially Andean— folk genres within successive, interrelated «cultural projects». I examine the extra-musical meanings attributed to this stylistic mode in the nueva canción (new song) movements of protest music in the Southern Cone, the transnational nueva canción latinoamericana (Latin American New Song) network to which they gave rise, and ultimately focus on música latinoamericana’s development in Colombia. During the mid 1970s, the initial Colombian practitioners of música latinoamericana adopted several facets of the discourse pertaining to this music along with the musical models themselves from nueva canción latinoamericana. However, they later reined claims about the style’s signi...

In this article, I follow the discourses elaborated around música latinoamericana («Latin American music»), a broad musical category encompassing a wide range of Latin American —but especially Andean— folk genres within successive, interrelated «cultural projects». I examine the extra-musical meanings attributed to this stylistic mode in the nueva canción (new song) movements of protest music in the Southern Cone, the transnational nueva canción latinoamericana (Latin American New Song) network to which they gave rise, and ultimately focus on música latinoamericana’s development in Colombia. During the mid 1970s, the initial Colombian practitioners of música latinoamericana adopted several facets of the discourse pertaining to this music —along with the musical models themselves— from nueva canción latinoamericana. However, they later reined claims about the styl...

In this article, I follow the discourses elaborated around música latinoamericana («Latin American music»), a broad musical category encompassing a wide range of Latin American —but especially Andean— folk genres within successive, interrelated «cultural projects». I examine the extra-musical meanings attributed to this stylistic mode in the nueva canción (new song) movements of protest music in the Southern Cone, the transnational nueva canción latinoamericana (Latin American New Song) network to which they gave rise, and ultimately focus on música latinoamericana’s development in Colombia. During the mid 1970s, the initial Colombian practitioners of música latinoamericana adopted several facets of the discourse pertaining to this music —along with the musical models themselves— from nueva canción latinoamericana. However, they later reined claims about the styl...