CERLAC Presents: Mexican Canto Nuevo: Music, Politics, and Resistance With Claudio Palomares Salas

Wednesday, March 19, 2025

12:00pm – 2:00pm

Kaneff Tower 857

York University

Join us for the launch of Mexican Canto Nuevo: Music, Politics, and Resistance (Oxford University Press, 2025), an exciting new book by Claudio Palomares-Salas that explores the transformative power of music in Mexico’s political and cultural landscape from the 1960s to the 1980s. This groundbreaking study examines the historical roots, ideological foundations, and lasting impact of the Mexican political song movement, offering fresh insights into its role in shaping Mexican society.

Claudio Palomares-Salas is an Associate Professor of Latin American Studies at Queen's University. He joined the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures in 2014. He has taught Latin American and Spanish literature, culture, music, and cinema courses, as well as Spanish language and translation courses, at McGill University, the University of Toronto, Trent University and Queen’s. His research and teaching interests are Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature and Music; Hispanic Avant-Garde Movements; and the Political Song in Latin America (1960-1990), particularly in Mexico.