Claudio Palomares-Salas is Associate Professor of Latin American Studies at Queen's University. He holds a Ph.D. in Hispanic Studies from the University of Toronto. He is the author of The Spatiality of the Hispanic Avant-Garde, the novel El lugar más triste para soñar (The Saddest Place to Dream), and of numerous academic articles. His areas of specialization are the Hispanic avant-garde movements (1910-1927), twentieth-century Spanish and Latin American literature and music, and the Nueva Canción movements in Latin America (1960-1990), particularly Mexico. An active drummer, he has toured and recorded with various artists in Mexico, Canada and abroad.

• 1: Setting the Stage: Rationale, Scholarly Influences, and Book Outline 2: Toward a Definition of Mexican Canto Nuevo: Features, Principles, and Themes 3: Mexican Canto Nuevo's Calls and Responses: Rock 'n' Roll, Folklorization, and Latin American Nueva Canción 4: 1968: The Birth of Mexican Canto Nuevo 5: The Rising (1969-1976) 6: Consolidation (1977-1981) 7: Peak and Decline (1982-1989)

A much-needed contribution to existing scholarship on political song in Latin America. In accessible prose, Palomares-Salas provides a comprehensive overview of the aesthetics, origins, and heyday of the Mexican Nueva Canción movement as well as the music of its most acclaimed performers.

Claudio Palomares-Salas is Associate Professor of Latin American Studies at Queen's University. He holds a Ph.D. in Hispanic Studies from the University of Toronto. He is the author of The Spatiality of the Hispanic Avant-Garde, the novel El lugar más triste para soñar (The Saddest Place to Dream), and of numerous academic articles. His areas of specialization are the Hispanic avant-garde movements (1910-1927), twentieth-century Spanish and Latin American literature and music, and the Nueva Canción movements in Latin America (1960-1990), particularly Mexico. An active drummer, he has toured and recorded with various artists in Mexico, Canada and abroad.

• 1: Setting the Stage: Rationale, Scholarly Influences, and Book Outline 2: Toward a Definition of Mexican Canto Nuevo: Features, Principles, and Themes 3: Mexican Canto Nuevo's Calls and Responses: Rock 'n' Roll, Folklorization, and Latin American Nueva Canción 4: 1968: The Birth of Mexican Canto Nuevo 5: The Rising (1969-1976) 6: Consolidation (1977-1981) 7: Peak and Decline (1982-1989)

A much-needed contribution to existing scholarship on political song in Latin America. In accessible prose, Palomares-Salas provides a comprehensive overview of the aesthetics, origins, and heyday of the Mexican Nueva Canción movement as well as the music of its most acclaimed performers.

Claudio Palomares-Salas is Associate Professor of Latin American Studies at Queen's University. He holds a Ph.D. in Hispanic Studies from the University of Toronto. He is the author of The Spatiality of the Hispanic Avant-Garde, the novel El lugar más triste para soñar (The Saddest Place to Dream), and of numerous academic articles. His areas of specialization are the Hispanic avant-garde movements (1910-1927), twentieth-century Spanish and Latin American literature and music, and the Nueva Canción movements in Latin America (1960-1990), particularly Mexico. An active drummer, he has toured and recorded with various artists in Mexico, Canada and abroad.

• 1: Setting the Stage: Rationale, Scholarly Influences, and Book Outline 2: Toward a Definition of Mexican Canto Nuevo: Features, Principles, and Themes 3: Mexican Canto Nuevo's Calls and Responses: Rock 'n' Roll, Folklorization, and Latin American Nueva Canción 4: 1968: The Birth of Mexican Canto Nuevo 5: The Rising (1969-1976) 6: Consolidation (1977-1981) 7: Peak and Decline (1982-1989)

A much-needed contribution to existing scholarship on political song in Latin America. In accessible prose, Palomares-Salas provides a comprehensive overview of the aesthetics, origins, and heyday of the Mexican Nueva Canción movement as well as the music of its most acclaimed performers.