Description

Panpipes and Ponchos offers the first detailed historical study of the Bolivian folkloric music movement, showing how musical practices developed by the politically dominant, nonindigenous residents of twentieth-century La Paz city came to be misrepresented as pre-Columbian, indigenous folk music.

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, Pena Naira, and the Folklore Boom
Chapter 8: Postlude
References
Index