La Nueva Canción Chilena: un ejemplo de circulación musical internacional (1968-1973)

Abstract

This article examines the international circulation of Chilean popular music, specifically the music composed by musicians within the Chilean New Song movement. At first, we will discuss the ethical and aesthetical implications of the musical research developed by the groups Inti-Illimani and Quilapayún in the context of their international musical tours in Latin America and Europe, emphasizing the role of the artists as musical intermediaries. Second, we will focus the analysis on the political activities of these musicians, who begin to play a particularly relevant role abroad as diplomatic agents during the Popular Unity. In this way, we will try to restore the importance of international interactions in the establishment of a Chilean musical practice which, far from staying peripheral, is able to connect to a global political-musical framework.