En la quebrá del ají. Rock in Chile in Times of Revolution, 1967-1973.

Abstract

When the reform and the revolution led to a Chilean path towards socialism, historically experienced by the Popular Unity project between the years 1970 and 1973, a musical genre was transformed into a whole cultural experience. In this way it rhymed its origin with the consolidation and construction of a national identity, at the same time as it did with the process of progressive construction of a socialist Chile. At a time where the musical scene of the New Chilean Song was hegemonic, as a representative of contingent politics, rock broke out as a relevant social experience. Its antecedents can be traced from the mid-1950s in terms of social reception, and to the end of the same decade in terms of musical performance. Rock thus became a vestige worthy of being taken into account by the historiography of the period, and one of the most interesting cultural expressions from that time to the present. It was a symbol and representation of a social process.