"The search of a national music with popular content has been one of the dearest objectives of the Argentine people. The artists, since the beginning of their own popular expression have tried to incorporate the diversity of gênres and other expressions of their own that matched their sensitivity, with the only objective of interpreting the whole country’s voice.
Thus reads the manifesto of the Nuevo Cancionero or New Song Book, a movement that marks a before and after in the aesthetics and ethics of Argentine folklore whose influences are still present.
Armando Tejada Gomez , Oscar Matus & Mercedes Sosa are some of the top referents of the music.