Unlike much of the literature on Venezuela in the Chávez period, this book shifts focus away from 'top down' perspectives to examine how Venezuelan folksinger Alí Primera (1942-1985) became intertwined with Venezuelan politics, both during his lifetime and posthumously.
Hazel Marsh is Lecturer in the School of Politics, Philosophy, Language and Communication Studies at the University of East Anglia, UK. She has researched, and published on, popular music and the Mexican student movement, Venezuelan cultural policy in the Chávez period, resistance music in Oaxaca, Mexico, and representations of British Gypsies.
Innehållsförteckning
Introduction: Popular Music and Politics in Latin America.- 1. Latin American New Song in the 1960s: The Leftist Revival of Folk Traditions.- 2. The Development of New Song in Venezuela in the 1970s: Alí Primera and Canción Necesaria.- 3. Collective Memories of Alí Primera in the Late Punto Fijo Period (1985-1989).- 4. Hugo Chávez and Alí Primera in the 1990s: ‘together in hope and song’.- 5. Alí Primera and Venezuelan Cultural Policy in the Twenty-First Century.- 6. Alí Primera’s Canción Necesaria and Chavismo.- Conclusion: Latin American New Song: An Enduring Legacy.