Nueva canción (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈnweβa kanˈθjon] 'new song') is a movement and genre within Latin American and Iberian folk music, folk-inspired music and socially committed music. Nueva canción is widely recognized to have played a powerful role in the social upheavals in Portugal, Spain and Latin America during the 1970s and 1980s.Nueva canción first surfaced during the 1960s as "The Chilean New Song" in Chile.