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The New Song Movement: Latin America’s soundtrack to the revolution

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By Larissa Kennedy, Javie Huxley, Hispanophone Caribbean, A Collective
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Solidarity in the Latin American struggle for social justice has long been cadenced by music. In the 1970s and 80s, Latin America was moving to the beat of a radical rhythm, with over two decades of interconnected struggle against dictatorships, neoliberalism, and US imperialism across Latin America. This shared soundtrack of resistance was a folk genre that came to be known as La Nueva Canción – the New Song – characterised by powerful lyrics, ladened voices, and the strum of a guitar.
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“There’s a very short step between suffragette organising and fascism.”

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By Larissa Kennedy, Alia Romagnoli, A Collective, Hispanophone Caribbean
| Shado Verified
We all know that the story we are popularly told about the linear waves of feminism is reductionist, often depicting the struggles of Black women and women of colour, queer women and disabled women at the margins – if at all. But how often do we consider that it is also obscuring the unsavoury underbelly of the feminist movement itself? With its revelatory history lesson about feminism, Leah Cowan’s latest book Why would feminists trust the police?
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