The Music Of Time
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- Episode
- Chile
- Broadcast Info
- 2017 (49 mins)
- Description
- Wyre Davies explores what happened when the Chilean Nueva Canci-n movement collided with General Pinochet’s brutal regime. In the late fifties a style of popular folk music was born which evoked Chile’s social struggles. The musicians helped build support for Salvador Allende, a candidate for a left wing party who in 1970 was elected president of Chile. But a few years later the artists of Nueva Canci-n found themselves caught up in a bloody military coup, and were persecuted by General Pinochet’s repressive regime. Wyre Davies goes to Chile to explore how the music moved Chile’s traumatic history, speaking to the musicians who survived the brutality of one the twentieth century’s most violent regimes. This is part of The Music of Time series, in association with the Open University, examining the interactions between music, identity and social change at key points in history.
- Genre
- History; Social Science; Music
How to cite this record
The Open University, "The Music Of Time". https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/ou/search/index.php/prog/229069 (Accessed 24 Nov 2025)