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Author Turino, Thomas

Title Moving away from silence : music of the Peruvian Altiplano and the experience of urban migration / Thomas Turino
Published Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1993

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 324 pages) : illustrations
Series Chicago studies in ethnomusicology
Chicago studies in ethnomusicology.
Contents Introduction: From Conima to Lima -- pt. 1. Music in Conima. 1. Instruments, Aesthetics, and Performance Practice. 2. The Collective and Competitive Nature of Musical Performance. 3. Making the Music: Rehearsals, Composition, and Musical Style. 4. Three Fiestas -- pt. 2. The Local, the National, and the Youth of Conima. 5. Qhantati Ururi of Conima. 6. The Urban Panpipe Movement and the Youth of Conima -- pt. 3. The Music of Conimeno Residents in Lima. 7. Conimenos in Lima and Regional Associations. 8. Centro Social Conima: Music and the Importance of Community. 9. The Framing of Experience: Festivals and Performance Occasions in Lima. 10. From Linda to Conima: The Residents Return Home -- Appendix 1: Calendar of Musical Occasions in Conima -- Appendix 2: Historical Background of the Musical Instruments -- Appendix 3: Musical Examples
Summary Increasingly popular in the United States and Europe, Andean panpipe and flute music draws its vitality from the traditions of rural highland villages and of rural migrants who have settled in Andean cities. In Moving Away from Silence, Thomas Turino describes panpipe and flute traditions in the context of this rural-urban migration and the turbulent politics that have influenced Peruvian society and local identities throughout this century. Turino's ethnography is the first large-scale study to concentrate on the pervasive effects of migration on Andean people and their music. Turino uses the
Analysis Folk music
Peru
Bibliography Discography: pages 315-316
Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-314) and index
Notes English
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Subject Folk music -- Peru -- Conima (District) -- History and criticism
Folk music -- Peru -- Lima -- History and criticism
Rural-urban migration -- Peru
MUSIC -- Ethnic.
MUSIC -- Genres & Styles -- Folk & Traditional.
Folk music
Rural-urban migration
Musique populaire -- Pérou -- Conima -- Histoire et critique.
Musique populaire -- Pérou -- Lima (Pérou) -- Histoire et critique.
Indiens -- Pérou -- Musique.
Exode rural -- Pérou.
Peru
Peru -- Conima (District)
Peru -- Lima
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 92026935
ISBN 9780226816951
0226816958
9780226816999
0226816990
128253775X
9781282537750
9786612537752
6612537752