ABOUT THIS PROJECT
Welcome to this Afro-Peruvian Music online resource. This space was created to present the rich culture of Afro-Peruvian music, its history, musical characteristics, instruments, prominent figures, and exemplary works through a comprehensive compilation of text, images, audio, and video. It aims at filling a gap of Afro-Peruvian invisibility in the online world to support the ascension of Afro-Peruvian culture and its people. This resource is directed at researchers, musicians, musicologists, artists, or anyone who wants to learn about Afro-Peruvian or Afro-Latin music and culture.
This project was created for the course ETEC 511: New Foundations on Educational Technology in the Master of Educational Technology (MET) program at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada, by student Eduardo Rebagliati.
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In the sections below, you’ll find a brief introduction to Afro-Peruvian music, a rationale for this project, and a description of how this website is structured .
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Afro-Peruvian music, also known as Música Negra, is a popular genre of Peruvian music that was developed by black slaves brought from West Africa by Spanish conquistadores in the 16th century. Over the following centuries, Afro-Peruvians found ways of merging their African musical traditions with Spanish music, creating a musical language that is particularly rich in rhythm and harmony.
Video: "Black Rhythms of Peru" a famous poem by Nicomedes Santa Cruz about African slavery and music.
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This website is divided into three sections:
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HISTORY
An in-depth review of the history of Afro-Peruvian music from the arrival of African slaves in Peru during the 16th century to the present time. Founded on literary works from Peruvian and international scholars who have endeavored to reconstruct the history of Afro-Peruvian music.
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An exploration of the idiom or musical language of Afro-Peruvian music. It reviews the general rhythmic, harmonic, and lyrical characteristics of the Afro-Peruvian sound and various subgenres such as festejo, landó, panalivio, zamacueca, amongst others.
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CULTURE
A presentation of various essential components that make up Afro-Peruvian music culture, such as instrumentation, notable artists, notable record productions and additional resources.
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REFLECT
A set of reflection activities based on the content presented throughout this website to instill critical thinking about the underlying social, cultural, and economic dimensions of Afro-Peruvian music.
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Carpio, G. C. (2021). Fusión y música afroperuana…de Chabuca Granda a los Hijos del Sol: Análisis musical comparativo de las obras “el surco” y “coplas a fray martin” en los discos cada canción con su razón y to my country [Thesis, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú]. https://tesis.pucp.edu.pe/repositorio/handle/20.500.12404/20742
Tompkins, W. D. (2011). Las tradiciones musicales de los negros de la costa del Perú (1. en español. ed.). CEMDUC.
Washington, A. & Kuo, R. (2020). Whose side are ethics codes on? Power, responsibility and the social good. In FAT* 2020 - Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (pp. 230-240). Association for Computing Machinery, Inc. https://doi.org/10.1145/3351095.3372844