Chilean New Song and the Question of Culture in the Allende Government analyzes a very interesting aspect of the revolutionary process experienced in Chile between 1970 and 1973, during the government of Salvador Allende. The relationship between political process, cultural politics, and the Chilean New Song movement is addressed through an analysis of the official programs, the discourses of the cultural actors, the real cultural practices, and the poetic-musical production of the works and songs of the Chilean New Song. The author explores a wide variety of sources, many of which have not previously been used by scholars. Her vision is broad, novel, and critical, making this book an important contribution to historiography.

Alfonso Padilla, University of Helsinki

The study of the New Song in Latin America in general and of the Chilean New Song in particular continues to attract the attention of historians, musicologists, and publishers... In this book, the Brazilian researcher addresses the ?eld of culture in Chile under the government of Salvador Allende between November 1971 and September 1973. Her argument is structured in an introduction and four chapters in which she makes a wide-ranging and commendable tour of a variety of aspects of both the musical movement of the New Song and this historical period.

Hispanic American Historical Review