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Chilean Folk Music

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The traditional music of Chile: the cueca and tonada of the central valley, the sung poetry of the canto a lo poeta, the Andean music of the north and the Mapuche traditions of the south, revived by Violeta Parra and the nueva canción movement.

Chile · emerged 1600s · peak 1960s

Also called: folclore chileno, música folclórica chilena

History

Colonial Spanish song and dance took root in the central valley and were collected by Violeta Parra in the 1950s, whose work fed the politically charged nueva canción chilena of the following decade.

What it sounds like

Guitar and guitarrón chileno
Cueca handkerchief dance
Sung improvised poetry in décimas
Andean and Mapuche regional traditions

Beneath it: canto a lo poeta, cueca, música típica chilena

Beside it: nueva canción chilena