Panpipes & Ponchos: Musical Folklorization and the Rise of the Andean Conjunto Tradition in La Paz, Bolivia

Author:   Fernando Rios (Assistant Professor of Ethnomusicology, Assistant Professor of Ethnomusicology, University of Maryland)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
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Pages:   288
Publication Date:   22 October 2020
Format:   Hardback
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Panpipes & Ponchos: Musical Folklorization and the Rise of the Andean Conjunto Tradition in La Paz, Bolivia


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"Melodious panpipes and kena flutes. The shimmering strums of a charango. Poncho-clad musicians playing ""El Cóndor Pasa"" at subway stops or street corners while selling their recordings. These sounds and images no doubt come to mind for many ""world music"" fans when they recall their early encounters with Andean music groups. Ensembles of this type DL known as ""Andean conjuntos"" or ""pan-Andean bands"" DL have long formed part of the world music circuit in the Global North. In the major cities of Latin America, too, Andean conjuntos have been present in the local music scene for decades, not only in Peru, Bolivia, and Ecuador (i.e., in the Andean countries), but also in Argentina, Chile, Colombia, and Mexico. It is solely in Bolivia, however, that the Andean conjunto has represented the preeminent folkloric-popular music ensemble configuration for interpreting national musical genres from the late 1960s onward. Despite its frequent association with indigenous villages, the music of Andean conjuntos bears little resemblance to the indigenous musical expressions of the Southern Andes. Created by urban criollo and mestizo folkloric artists, the Andean conjunto tradition represents a form of mass-mediated folkloric music, one that is only loosely based on indigenous musical practices. Panpipes & Ponchos reveals that in the early-to-mid 20th century, a diverse range of musicians and ensembles, including estudiantinas, female vocal duos, bolero trios, art-classical composers, and mestizo panpipe groups, laid the groundwork for the Andean conjunto format to eventually take root in the Bolivian folklore scene amid the boom decade of the 1960s. Author Fernando Rios analyzes local musical trends in conjunction with government initiatives in nation-building and the ideologies of indigenismo and mestizaje. Beyond the local level, Rios also examines key developments in Bolivian national musical practices through their transnational links with trends in Peru, Argentina, Chile, Mexico, and France. As the first book-length study that chronicles how Bolivia's folkloric music movement articulated, on the one hand, with Bolivian state projects, and on the other, with transnational artistic currents, for the pivotal era spanning the 1920s to 1960s, Panpipes & Ponchos offers new perspectives on the Andean conjunto's emergence as Bolivia's favored ensemble line-up in the field of national folkloric-popular music."

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Author:   Fernando Rios (Assistant Professor of Ethnomusicology, Assistant Professor of Ethnomusicology, University of Maryland)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint:   Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 24.20cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 16.00cm
Weight:   0.570kg
ISBN:  

9780190692278


ISBN 10:   0190692278
Pages:   288
Publication Date:   22 October 2020
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments Chapter 1: Introduction Part One - Foundations of the Bolivian Folkloric Music Movement Chapter 2: Musical Dimensions of Indigenismo Chapter 3: Estudiantinas and Female Vocal Duos Part Two - Musical Folklorization in the Period of Revolutionary Nationalism (1952-1964) Chapter 4: State-Sponsored Folklorization of Music-Dance Traditions in the MNR Era Chapter 5: Bolero Trios, Urban Mestizo Panpipe Groups, and Early Incarnations of the Andean Conjunto Part Three - The Folklore Boom and Its Legacies Chapter 6: 1965, The Onset of the Folkloric Music Boom Chapter 7: Los Jairas, Peña Naira, and the Folklore Boom Chapter 8: Postlude References Index

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Fernando Rios' meticulously researched and fascinating history is an indispensable resource for understanding how Andean folk music came to take the world by storm. Although powerfully invoking ideas and images of indigenous Andean culture, Panpipes and Ponchos demonstrates that the conjunto (with its standard line-up of kena flute, charango, guitar, bombo drum, and later panpipes) was thoroughly transnational, middle class, and rooted in Bolivia's turbulent twentieth-century history. * Henry Stobart, Royal Holloway University of London, author of Music and the Poetics of Production in the Bolivian Andes * 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. * Jonathan Ritter, Associate Professor of Ethnomusicology, University of California Riverside *


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. * Jonathan Ritter, Associate Professor of Ethnomusicology, University of California Riverside * Fernando Rios' meticulously researched and fascinating history is an indispensable resource for understanding how Andean folk music came to take the world by storm. Although powerfully invoking ideas and images of indigenous Andean culture, Panpipes and Ponchos demonstrates that the conjunto (with its standard line-up of kena flute, charango, guitar, bombo drum, and later panpipes) was thoroughly transnational, middle class, and rooted in Bolivia's turbulent twentieth-century history. * Henry Stobart, Royal Holloway University of London, author of Music and the Poetics of Production in the Bolivian Andes *


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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.

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