- Hardcover: 208 pages
- Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA (July 19, 2001)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0195138813
- ISBN-13: 978-0195138818
This volume examines how the search for "cultural authenticity," the
dispute over the past, and the role of "modernity" have been
instrumental in building the regional musical culture of the Mantaro
Valley, a central Peruvian region with about half a million inhabitants.
How these people have addressed concerns over the loss of ancient
traditions by restructuring colonial and pre-Hispanic traditions into
new contexts and forms is explored. Covering private and public music
making, along with ritual, ceremonial, and popular uses of music, Romero
studies the interaction of music and identity. The book is concerned
with a modern regional culture, situated and defined in the context of
an emergent nation, which is struggling to build a distinct cultural
identity and to recreate values.
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