Andean music

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Street band from Peru performing El Cóndor Pasa in Tokyo

Andean music is a group of styles of music from the Andes region in South America.

Original chants and melodies come from the general area inhabited by

Nueva Canción
movement of the 1970s revived the genre across South America and brought it to places where it was unknown or forgotten.

Instruments

The panflute is among the most emblematic instruments of Andean music.

The

huaynos
traditional songs and contemporary Andean music.

pinkillos or tarkas, are played during the wet season. Tarkas are constructed from local Andean hardwood sources. Marching bands dominated by drums
and panpipes are commonplace today and are used to celebrate weddings, carnivals and other holidays.

Modern history

The twentieth century saw drastic changes in Andean society and culture. Bolivia, for example, saw a

radio stations began broadcasting
in Aymara and Quechua.

By 1965, an influential group called

Simon and Garfunkel covered Los Incas song "El Cóndor Pasa" and Andean music became famous around the world.[2]

The late 1960s released native groups such as Ruphay,

canto nuevo artists such as Emma Junaro and Matilde Casazola.[3]

The 1970s was a decade in which Andean music saw its biggest growth. Different groups sprang out of the different villages throughout the Andes Region. Peru, Ecuador, Chile, Bolivia, south of Colombia, and northwest Argentina.

Many musicians made their way to the big cities forming different bands and groups. One of the most legendary was Los Kjarkas, from Bolivia, singing and composing songs that became huge hits in Bolivia and would later become Andean standards. They would later take Andean music to the rest of the world.

Genres and relationships to other musical styles

  • Carnavalito
  • Diablada - from Bolivia
  • Morenada - From southern Peru and western Bolivia.
  • Tinku - Originated from the ritual of violent sacrifice to the mother earth to ensure the best look, good fortune and the prosperity of the next seasons crops.
  • K'antu
    - An ancient style of music and circle dance which is widespread since incaic or even preincaic epoch on the Peruvian and Bolivian highlands.
  • San Juanito - Originated in Ecuador, Northern Peru and Southern Colombia, formerly related to solar cult (Inti Raymi)
  • siku (panpipe), accordion, saxophone, charango, lute, violin, guitar, and mandolin. Some elements of guayño originate in the music of the pre-Columbian Andes, especially on the territory of former Inca Empire. Huayno utilizes a distinctive rhythm in which the first beat is stressed and followed by two short beats. Huayno has some subgenres: Sikuri, Carnaval Ayacuchano, Hiyawa, Chuscada
    .
  • Harawi - Ancient traditional musical genre and also indigenous lyric poetry. Harawi was widespread in the Inca Empire and now is especially common in countries that were part of it: Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador, partially Chile. Typically, harawi is a moody, soulful slow and melodic song or tune played on the quena.
  • Afro-Bolivian Saya
  • Chicha - Originated in Peru the late 1980s as a fusion of cumbia and huayno music.
  • Waylas Huaylarsh - Originated in the central andean part of Peru in the Mántaro Valley located in the department of Junín.
  • Department of Apurimac
    in Peru.
  • Áncash
    , Peru
  • Cueca
  • Qhaswa
  • Puno, Peru and Parinacota
    , Chile, as well as northern Argentina.
  • Arequipa
  • Marinera - An Afro-Peruvian rhythm.

Cumbia

Originally from the

electric bass guitars, electronic percussion and little from the original cumbia rhythm.[citation needed
]

Nueva canción

Andean music has served as a major source of inspiration for the neo-folkloric Nueva canción movement that began in the 1960s, Nueva canción musicians both interpreted old songs and created new pieces that are now considered Andean music. Some Nueva canción musicians such as Los Jaivas would fuse Andean music with psychedelic and progressive rock.

Rock en español

While the

Los Enanitos Verdes
.

Other notable groups and artists

Argentina
Bolivia
Chile
Colombia
  • Géne-sis
Ecuador
Peru
Outside the Andes

See also

References

  1. ^ losjairas.com Los Jairas retrieved 17 July 2021
  2. ^ El cóndor pasa retrieved 17 July 2021
  3. ISBN 978-1-4053-8374-5
    . Retrieved 20 July 2021.
  4. ^ "East meets West on Christmas". Esplanade. 25 December 2022. Retrieved 23 January 2023.
  5. ^ "Festival de música gratuito en Quito por las culturas ancestrales". El Universo (in Spanish). 2 August 2015. Retrieved 23 January 2023.
  6. ^ Rosales, José Luis (27 February 2020). "Ñanda Mañachi realiza actos previo a su medio siglo de vida". El Comercio (in Spanish). Retrieved 23 January 2023.
  7. ^ a b Rosales, José Luis (18 January 2016). "Los músicos otavaleños están de retorno". El Comercio (in Spanish). Retrieved 23 January 2023.

Further reading

  • Brill, Mark. Music of Latin America and the Caribbean, 2nd Edition, 2018.
    ISBN 1138053562

External links
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