Panpipes & Ponchos - Musical Folklorization Rise of Andean Conjunto Tradition in La Paz,

Panpipes and Ponchos offers the first detailed historical study of the Bolivian folkloric music movement, showing how musical practices developed by the politically dominant, nonindigenous residents of twentieth-century La Paz city came to be misrepresented as pre-Columbian, indigenous folk music.

About the author

Fernando Rios is Associate Professor in Ethnomusicology at the University of Maryland. His research interests include Latin American (especially Bolivian) folkloric, indigenous, and popular music; folklorization and nation-building; music and social-political movements; the politics of cultural appropriation; and historical ethnomusicology.

Summary

Panpipes and Ponchos offers the first detailed historical study of the Bolivian folkloric music movement, showing how musical practices developed by the politically dominant, nonindigenous residents of twentieth-century La Paz city came to be misrepresented as pre-Columbian, indigenous folk music.

Additional text

Fernando Rios is the preeminent historian of what the world knows today as 'Andean music.' In this meticulously researched and theoretically profound book, he offers a model of well-crafted historical ethnomusicology: deeply grounded in the details of Bolivian musical nationalism and its transnational connections, yet offering broad insights about the intersections of music, ethnicity, class, and politics in Latin America in the twentieth century.

Product details

• Authors: Fernando Rios, Fernando (Assistant Professor of Ethnomusico Rios
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2020
• EAN: 9780190692278
• ISBN: 978-0-19-069227-8
• No. of pages: 288
• Series: Currents in Latin American and Iberian Music; CURRENTS IN LATIN AMER AND IBERIAN MUSIC; Currents in Latin Amer and Ibe
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music > General, dictionaries; MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Folk & Traditional, Folk & traditional music, Folk, Folkloric styles, Traditional and folk music