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, "Avándaro" by Tinta Blanca and "Lamento del indio" by Inti Illimani. These songs is not available on any streaming services. And we also heard Sol y Lluvia with "Organizando."

We also heard a a version of "Eres para mi" originally from Julieta Venegas. This episode's version is episode was performed by the students of Miramonte Music Program, based in the MiraMonte school in South Los Angeles.

Original songs played in our episodes are included in our Podcast Playlist. Make sure to check it out as new songs are included weekly during the summer 23.

Episode Three Bibliography. Books and Articles for further reading and research:

—Abello Onofre, Carolina. "Scratching the Stones of Rock and Roll: Love Lyrics in the Times of the Argentinian Dictatorship." Rock Music Studies 5, no. 1 (2018): 76-93.

—Carreño, Rubí. Av. Independencia: Literatura, música e ideas de Chile disidente. Cuarto propio, 2013.

—Espinosa, Christian Spencer. "Hacia un nuevo cancionero popular: música, creación y política en la revuelta social chilena (2019-2020)." Boletín Música 54 (2020): 29.

—Favoretto, Mara, and Timothy Wilson. "El Gran Hermano burlado: la neolengua oficial y la neolengua contracultural durante la Dictadura Militar (1976–1983) en Argentina." Contexto-Revista do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Letras da UFES 31 (2017).

—Favoretto, Mara. "The Falklands/Malvinas War (1982) in Argentine Rock Songs." Lied und populäre Kultur/Song and Popular Culture 63 (2018): 53-66.

—Manzano, Valeria. "“Rock Nacional” and Revolutionary Politics: The Making of a Youth Culture of Contestation in Argentina, 1966-1976." The Americas 70, no. 3 (2014): 393-427.

—McSherry, J. Patrice. "La dictadura y la música popular en Chile: Los primeros años de plomo." Resonancias vol. 23, n° 45, julio-noviembre 2019, pp. 147-169.

—Neustadt, Robert. "Music as memory and torture: sounds of repression and protest in Chile and Argentina." Chasqui 33, no. 1 (2004): 128-137.

—Pensado, Jaime M. "“To Assault with the Truth”: The Revitalization of Conservative Militancy in Mexico During the Global Sixties." The Americas 70, no. 3 (2014): 489-521.

—Prado, Ignacio M. Sánchez. "The Idea of Democratic Transition." Modern Mexican Culture:Critical Foundations (2017): 166.