Making Music Indigenous: Popular Music in the Peruvian Andes (Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology) - Hardcover

Tucker, Joshua

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 022660716X ISBN 13: 9780226607160

Publisher: University of Chicago Press, 2019

Synopsis

When thinking of indigenous music, many people may imagine acoustic instruments and pastoral settings far removed from the whirl of modern life. But, in contemporary Peru, indigenous chimaycha music has become a wildly popular genre that is even heard in the nightclubs of Lima. In Making Music Indigenous, Joshua Tucker traces the history of this music and its key performers over fifty years to show that there is no single way to “sound indigenous.” The musicians Tucker follows make indigenous culture and identity visible in contemporary society by establishing a cultural and political presence for Peru’s indigenous peoples through activism, artisanship, and performance. This musical representation of indigeneity not only helps shape contemporary culture, it also provides a lens through which to reflect on the country’s past. Tucker argues that by following the musicians that have championed chimaycha music in its many forms, we can trace shifting meanings of indigeneity—and indeed, uncover the ways it is constructed, transformed, and ultimately recreated through music.

About this title

About the Author

Joshua Tucker is associate professor of music at Brown University.

Review

 “This book is an ethnomusicological boundary crosser. In Making Music Indigenous, Tucker attends both to the social spaces of performance and to musical texts, to the material and the immaterial, to individual pathways and larger social movements. The complexity of indigenous modernity comes alive in this important study.” (Beverley Diamond, Memorial University)

“Steeped in the literature on indigeneity and years of ethnographic investigation in Peru, Tucker brilliantly examines indigeneity through the emergence of a popular local musical genre, examining the experiences of a musician, an instrument maker, and the many forces shaping music in the Andes today.” (Anthony Seeger, University of California, Los Angeles)

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 022660716X
• ISBN 13: 9780226607160
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 312