Episode Three—"Should We Remember?" Music, Dictatorships, and Dissent in Latin America

This episode is hosted by Dr. Citlali Sosa-Riddell (Cal State University, San Marcos) and looks at music as a form of dissent in Latin America.Music in the form of nueva canción, canto nuevo and rock and roll became a creative space for dissent with young people frustrated with the anti-democratic societies they lived in and challenging it through their participation in musical culture.

Así que this episode examines Argentina, Mexico, and Chile from the 1960s to the 1980s to find out exactly why rock music became a space of creativity against the dictatorships.

Song Listing:

In this episode we listened to Enanitos Verdes “El Extraño de Pelo Largo,” which is a cover originally from La Joven Guardia, "