Resisting Neoliberal Totality: The “New” Nueva Canción Movement in Post-Authoritarian Chile

Abstract

In contemporary Chile the “new” Nueva Canción Chilena movement has been actively defying the legacyof the neoliberal fascist counterrevolution imposed by the dictatorship.. In this context, Manuel García constructs his poetics via a combination of rock, the trobador tradition, and various Latin American popular genres, while Aldo Asenjo has been recuperating long-marginalized musical forms, such as cumbia chilombiana and canción cebolla. I argue that what guides these projects is a pursuit of authenticity by means of enacting auralscapes that have affectively shaped Chilean cultural memory, and a way its 1960s predecessors were not in a position to accomplish.

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