The political pamphlet in the Chilean New Song during the Popular Unity: between “love of the process” and “musical terrorism”

Abstract

This paper focuses on the “pamphlet songs” spread by the Chilean New Songmovement during the Popular Unity’s government (1970-1973), in order to identify theforms assumed by the songs supporting the process, their main characteristics and theirrepercussion at the time. The analysis was based on the discography of musicians andon the government press, bringing to light the elements involved in the revolutionarydiscourse supported by the musicians. I found that the repertoire examined is quite variedand was far from a consensus within the movement. The results show that, despite beingthe most studied and discussed artistic movement in Chilean musical history, there are stillmany aspects to be explored by scholars, whether in the most well-known field, by reviewingand deepening data, or by bringing up themes, names and works little remembered.