Anacruz presents:
SOUNDING INDIGENOUS
AUTHENTICITY IN BOLIVIAN MUSIC PERFORMANCE

By Michelle Bigenho

Palgrave
2002

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MUSIC OF:
Toropalca
Yura
Música de Maestros

CHAPTERS:
1 Authenticity Matters

2 What Makes You Want to Dance

3 "Time!"

4 Indigenous Cool and the Politics of Aesthetics

5 The Burden and Lightness of Authenticity

6 Sonorous Sovereignty

7 The Indigenous Work and its Authorship

8 Codas, Despedidas, and Kacharpayas

Musical Examples from Toropalca

These excerpts were recorded by the author, with permission from Toropalqueños. But nothing is quite as easy as that statement suggests. For a detailed examination of the process of recording indigenous music, see Chapter 7 of this book. All samples have a duration of 30 to 60 seconds.

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"Sonquetuypi" (216KB)
flauta huayño recorded in Carnival, 1994

"Munasqueytáy" (140KB)
flauta huayño recorded in Carnival, 1994

"Para jina, yaku jina"(184KB)
ayarachis huayllas recorded in Fiesta of San Juan, 1994