Objective:

To propose a genealogy of the practices and discourses that have shaped the New Colombian Music, one of the most relevant musical and cultural phenomena of recent decades in Colombia. The article analyzes the musical and discursive practices of pioneering rock groups in Colombia in the sixties and seventies and finds clues in the historical repertoire of Colombian rock to better understand today's "novelties".

Methodology:

This is done through the review of primary sources such as songs, album covers, interviews with Colombian musicians, and the review of specialized press.

Originality:

This article contributes to fill a gap in the studies on popular music in Colombia, particularly NMC, showing connections between groups and musicians of various generations, thus controverting the discourses that present it as an absolutely new and unprecedented phenomenon.

Conclusions:

After evidencing connections between musical repertoires from different eras, this research argues that the "new" label has been a constant in the Colombian music market, frequently used to refer to "fusions", which are by no means exclusive to NMC. Likewise, it shows the influence that groups from the seventies, such as Banda Nueva and Cascabel, had on musicians and groups that shaped NMc at the end of the twentieth century and the beginning of the twenty first century.