The Decolonising Project Surrounding the Puerto Rican Nueva Canción: Creative Networks in Search of a Country

Abstract

I will explore the flows and tensions that formed the Puerto Rican New Song Movement. I seek to identify the way in sich a sonic ecology is being produced by incorporating ways of musiking that flow in the intense exchanges that flow transnationally. I seek to identify the decolonizing elements contained in the diverse and heterogeneous esthetic proposals of the New Song and other musics that are being created during the sixties, seventies and eighties of the past century. I argue that the New Song does not only challenges and questions the colonial relationshil between Puerto Rico and the United States, but also the structure of coloniality established here and in all of America during the European colonization.