7 Figures in the Renewal of Popular Music

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Even though their first records were only published in the first half of the following decade, a "New Portuguese Song" was born in the hope ignited by Humberto Delgado's campaign in 1958. New directions, revealed by the courage and invention of José Afonso (1929—1987), were explored in diverse and highly personalized ways by a generation of younger singer-songwriters, born between 1942 and 1948. From the new Ballad of Coimbra to the inevitable impact of Anglo-Saxon innovations, there was a rediscovery of local traditional music and that of the former Portuguese colonies, in songs where the word and the will to change were central.

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