Singer-songwriter

The term singer-songwriter refers to performers who both write and sing their own material.

Latin traditions

Beginning in the 1960s, many Latin countries developed singer-songwriter traditions that adopted elements from various popular styles. The first such tradition was the mid-60s invention of nueva canción, which took hold in Andean countries like Chile, Peru, Argentina and Bolivia.

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1960s - Nueva canción - Chile - Peru - Argentina - Bolivia

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At around the same time, the Brazilian popular style bossa nova was evolving into a politically-charged singer-songwriter tradition called Tropicalismo. Two performers, Gilberto Gil and Caetano Veloso became two of the most famous people in all of Brazil through their work in Tropicalismo.

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Brazil - Bossa nova - Tropicalismo - Gilberto Gil - Caetano Veloso

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The European Hispanic countries of Spain and Portugal have also had singer-songwriter traditions, which are sometimes said to have drawn on pan-Latin elements. Spain is known for the nova canço tradition ?exemplified by Joan Manuel Serrat?; the Portuguese fado performer and songwriter José Afonso helped lead a revival of Portuguese folk culture, including a modernized form of fado called nova canção. Following the 1974 revolution, nova canção became more politicized and was known as canto livre.

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Spain - Portugal - Nova canço - Joan Manuel Serrat - Fado - José Afonso - Nova canção - 1974 - Canto livre

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In the latter part of the 1960s and into the 70s, socially and politically aware singer-songerwriters like Silvio Rodríguez and Pablo Milanés emerged in Cuba, birthing a genre known as nueva trova. Trova as a genre has had broad influence across Latin America. In Mexico, for example, canción yucateca on the Yucatan Peninsula and trova serrana in the Sierra Norte of Oaxaca are both regional adaptations of trova.

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Silvio Rodríguez - Pablo Milanés - Nueva trova

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In the mid-1970s, a singer-songwriter tradition called canto popular emerged in Uruguay.

Related Topics:
Canto popular - Uruguay

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