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Nueva canción (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈnweβa kanˈθjon] or [kanˈsjon] ‘new song’) is a movement and genre within Latin American and Iberian music of folk music folk-inspired music and socially committed music. Nueva canción is widely recognized to have played a powerful role in the social upheavals in Portugal Spain and Latin America during the 1970s and 1980s.Nueva canción first surfaced during the 1960s as The Chilean New Song in Chile.