Nueva canción chilena

Nueva canción chilena, Chilean new song, is the folk revival and protest-song movement that transformed Chilean music in the 1960s and early 1970s. Following the fieldwork and example of *Violeta Parra*, its musicians recovered traditional forms such as the cueca and tonada and fused them with Andean instruments — quena, zampoña, charango — and with literary, explicitly political songwriting. Centred on the Peña de los Parra in Santiago and the #DICAP# label, and embodied by *Víctor Jara*, *Quilapayún* and *Inti-Illimani*, the movement became the cultural voice of the Chilean left before its violent suppression after the 1973 coup.