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  2. Music of Peru - Wikipedia

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    Peruvian music is an amalgamation of sounds and styles drawing on Peru's Andean, Spanish, and African roots. Andean influences can perhaps be best heard in wind instruments and the shape of the melodies, while the African influences can be heard in the rhythm and percussion instruments, and European influences can be heard in the harmonies and stringed instruments.

  3. Andean music - Wikipedia

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    Street band from Peru performing El Cóndor Pasa in Tokyo. Andean music is a group of styles of music from the Andes region in South America.. Original chants and melodies come from the general area inhabited by Quechuas (originally from Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador, Chile), Aymaras (originally from Bolivia), and other peoples who lived roughly in the area of the Inca Empire prior to European contact.

  4. Centro Qosqo de Arte Nativo - Wikipedia

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    The Centro Qosqo de Arte Nativo is a folk art cultural institution based in the city of Cusco, Peru. It is the first Cusqueñan organization dedicated to promoting regional and national folk art. [1] Its purpose is the collection and preservation of folk music and dances from the Cusco Region.

  5. List of South American folk music traditions - Wikipedia

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    Music scholars, journalists, audiences, record industry individuals, politicians, nationalists and demagogues may often have occasion to address which fields of folk music are distinct traditions based along racial, geographic, linguistic, religious, tribal or ethnic lines, and all such peoples will likely use different criteria to decide what ...

  6. Mitimaes - Wikipedia

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    Mitimaes is a folk music group from Peru. The group dates from 1983, having its first public performance in March in the Festival of the Zampoñas of Gold, organized by Department of Education in Arequipa winning first place in Peruvian folk music. Towards the end of the same year they became recognized as one of the better folk groups that ...

  7. Music of Mexico - Wikipedia

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    Northern traditional music or Norteño was highly influenced by immigrants from Germany, Poland, and Czechia to northern Mexico and the southwestern United States in the mid 1800s, the instruments and musical styles of the Central European immigrants were adopted to Mexican folk music, the accordion becoming especially popular and is still ...

  8. Huayno - Wikipedia

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    The history of Huayno dates back to colonial Peru as a combination of traditional rural folk music and popular urban dance music. High-pitched vocals are accompanied by a variety of instruments, including quena (flute), harp , siku (panpipe), accordion , saxophone , charango , lute , violin , guitar , and mandolin .

  9. Category:Peruvian folk music - Wikipedia

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    Peruvian folk songs‎ (1 P) Pages in category "Peruvian folk music" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total.