Mexican Canto Nuevo: Music, Politics, and Resistance

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.