ABSTRACT
In the Manifiesto song, Victor Jara expresses the organic intersection between the field of cultural production and political movements that found its paradigmatic expression in the “Cancion Nueva Movement.” This political, revolutionary ethics is probably best expressed in the last prophetical line of the “Manifiesto”: “a song that has been brave/will always be cancion nueva.” Rock music came to Ecuador in the middle of the 1960s in the height of military dictatorship. Within a political culture deeply shaped by conservative Catholicism, rock music was considered to be a dangerous movement that would seduce the youth. The most emblematic references towards the political impact of the indigenous movement are made by the metalband Aztra and the hardcore band CURARE at the beginning of the 2000s, during the heyday of indigenous social protest against neoliberalism and advocating for democratization. The idea of cultural encounter is best expressed in CURARE’s music video with its song “Tinku” in 2015.
