SPAN 556 Latin American Popular Song: Socio-Political Movements
An interdisciplinary study of selected twentieth-century Latin American popular song repertoires and their relationship to socio-political movements. It examines songs from the New Song (Argentina and Chile), the New Trova (Cuba and Nicaragua), and Mexican corridos, among others, and artists such as Atahualpa Yupanqui, Víctor Jara, Violeta Parra, Pablo Milanés, Silvio Rodríguez, Carlos Mejía Godoy, Chalino Sánchez, and Lila Downs.