Moving Away from Silence Music of the Peruvian Altiplano and the Experience of Urban Migration

Name: Moving Away from Silence Music of the Peruvian Altiplano and the Experience of Urban Migration
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ISBN: 9780226817002

ISBN-10: 0226817008

ISBN-13: 9780226817002

Edition: 1993

Authors: Thomas Turino

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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 musical traditions of Conima, Peru as a unifying thread, tracing them through the varying lives…

Book details

List price: $49.00
Copyright year: 1993
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 6/15/1993
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 331
Size: 0.62" wide x 0.90" long x 0.07" tall
Weight: 1.232

Thomas Turino is Professor of musicology and anthropology at the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana.



List of Illustrations


Acknowledgments


Introduction: From Conima to Lima Part One: Music in Conima



Instruments, Aesthetics, and Performance Practice



The Collective and Competitive Nature of Musical Performance



Making the Music: Rehersals, Composition, and Musical Style



Three Fiestas Part Two: The Local, the National, and the Youth of Conima



Qhantati Ururi of Conima



The Urban Panpipe Movement and the Youth of Conima Part Three: The Music of Conimentilde;o Residents in Lima



Conimentilde;os in Lima and Regional Associations



Centro Social Conima: Music and the Importance of Community



The Framing of Experience: Festivals and Performance Occasions in Lima



From Lima to Conima: The Residents Return Home



Calendar of Musical Occasions in Conima



Historical Background of the Musical Instruments



Musical Examples


Notes


Glossary


Bibliography Annotated Discography


Index