Nueva trova was a movement in Cuban music that emerged in the mid-1960s. It combined traditional folk music idioms with progressive and often politicized lyrics. Though originally and still largely Cuban, nueva trova is popular across Latin America, especially in Puerto Rico and Venezuela. The Caribbean island of Cuba has been influential in the development of multiple musical styles in the 19th and 20th centuries. ... Events and trends The 1960s was a turbulent decade of change around the world. ... Folk music, in the original sense of the term, is music by and of the people. ... Latin America consists of the countries of South America and some of North America (including Central America and some the islands of the Caribbean) whose inhabitants mostly speak Romance languages, although Native American languages are also spoken. ...

While expressing progressive sentiments similar to those of nueva canción, it had the advantage of support from the Cuban government, since it promoted the Cuban Revolution. During the 1960s, the genre's first Cuban stars arose, including Silvio Rodríguez, Vicente Feliu, Carlos Varela and Pablo Milanés. At roughly the same time, Puerto Ricans like Roy Brown, Andrés Jiménez, Antonio Caban Vale, Haciendo Punto en Otro Son also became famous. In both Cuba and Puerto Rico, the politicized lyrics of nueva trova were very often critical of the United States; Puerto Rican singers were especially critical of Vieques' continued use as a United States Navy training ground. The Caribbean island of Cuba has been influential in the development of multiple musical styles in the 19th and 20th centuries. ... The batá is a double-headed drum shaped like an hourglass with one cone larger than the other. ... For the dance, see Cha-cha-cha (dance). ... Changui is a style of Cuban music which originated in the early 19th century in the eastern region of Guantánamo Province. ... A charanga is a Cuban orchestra composed of piano, strings, vocals, flute and Cuban musical style characterized by this kind of orchestration. ... Conga is a drum, a type of music, and a type of dance (Conga Line). ... Danzon is the official music of Cuba, and derives from a European-influenced ballroom dance played by Cuban charangas. ... Roberto Fazz. ... Guajira is a style of Cuban acoustic music. ... Guaracha derived from the fusion of a vast cloud of rhythms during the mid 1950s in Cuba. ... Habanera is an adjective meaning from Havana (also known as La Habana), Cuba. ... Latin jazz is the general term given to music that combines rhythms from African and Latin American countries with jazz harmonies from the United States. ... Hip hop arrived in Cuba via radio and TV broadcasts from Miami. ... This article is about Mambo dance and musical style. ... Rumba is both a family of music rhythms and a dance style that originated in Africa and traveled via the slave trade to Cuba and the New World. ... Salsa Dance is the name given in New York to Casino Dance, developed in Havana in the early 1960s. ... Son can refer to various things: A male direct descendant If referring to the Korean branch of Buddhism, see Seon Son, a commune in the Ardennes département in France A town within the municipality of Son en Breugel, in the Netherlands A town in the municipality of Vestby, Norway, see... Arsenio Rodríguez initially developed son montuno from son. ... Timba is the Cuban variant of salsa music, and is often understood to be a sub-category of salsa. ... Categories: Substubs | Timelines of music | Cuban music ... A music festival is a festival that presents a number of musical performances usually tied together through a theme or genre. ... The National Anthem is the name of a song by the band Radiohead. ... La Bayamesa (The Bayamo Song) is the national anthem of Cuba. ... The Canto Nuevo or Nueva Canción is a form of folk music that developed in South America. ... The Cuban Revolution was the overthrow of Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista by the 26th of July Movement and the establishment of a new government led by Fidel Castro in the 1950s. ... Silvio Rodríguez Domínguez is a Cuban musician, and a leader of the nueva trova movement. ... Carlos Varela (born April 11, 1963) is a singer-songwriter of nueva trova from Havana, Cuba. ... Pablo Milanés born in Bayamo, Cuba on February 24, 1943. ... There have been a number of notable people named Roy Brown: Roy Brown, the Canadian pilot who is credited with shooting down the Red Baron Roy Brown, a Blues musician who was a pioneer of Rock and Roll Roy Brown, a Puerto Rican musician Roy Brown, a famous clown most... Antonio Caban Vale a. ... Vieques is an island-municipality of Puerto Rico. ... The United States Navy (USN) is the branch of the United States armed forces responsible for naval operations. ...

Despite the criticism of the United States government, many nueva trova artists were inspired by the likes of Bob Dylan and Joan Baez, as well as the British band The Beatles, Chilean revivalist Violeta Parra, Uruguayan singer-songwriter Daniel Viglietti and the Catalan protest singer Joan Manuel Serrat. At approximately the same time as the rise of nueva trova, similar musical genres across the world were increasing in popularity as part of a roots revival; these involved the popularization of traditional music welded with socio-political lyrics. Nueva trova was most closely influenced by South American (especially Chilean) nueva canción, Spanish nova canção, Bolivian canto nuevo, Portuguese canto livre and Brazilian Tropicalismo. Portrait photograph of Bob Dylan taken by Daniel Kramer Bob Dylan (born Robert Allen Zimmerman May 24, 1941, Duluth, Minnesota, USA) is widely regarded as one of Americas greatest popular songwriters. ... Joan Chandos Báez (born January 9, 1941 in Staten Island, New York) is an American folk singer and songwriter, known for her distinctive vocal style as well as her outspoken political views. ... The Beatles (L-R, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Ringo Starr, John Lennon), in 1964, performing on The Ed Sullivan Show during their first United States tour, promoting their first U.S. hit song, I Want To Hold Your Hand. ... Violeta del Carmen Parra Sandoval (October 14, 1917 - February 5, 1967) was a notable Chilean folklorist. ... The term singer-songwriter refers to performers who both write and sing their own material. ... Capital Barcelona Official languages Spanish and Catalan In Val dAran, also Aranese. ... A protest song is often a kind of folk music, but in recent times protest songs come from all genres of music, including punk rock and hip hop. ... Joan Manuel Serrat (born December 27, 1943 in Barcelona) is a Catalan singer and songwriter. ... A roots revival (folk revival) is a trend which includes young performers popularizing the traditional musical styles of their ancestors. ... South America South America is a continent crossed by the equator, with most of its area in the Southern Hemisphere. ... The Canto Nuevo or Nueva Canción is a form of folk music that developed in South America. ... The Canto Nuevo or Nueva Canci n is a form of folk music that developed in South America. ... Tropicalismo, otherwise known as Tropicália, is a form of Brazilian music that arose in the late 1960s from a melange of bossa nova, rock and roll, Bahia folk music, and perhaps Portuguese fado. ...