Art Thieme of Peru has been inside folk music circles for decades. He rambled the festival circuit from the 1960s through the 1980s. Long after his most prolific years, Thieme is up for a Grammy ...

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"Indigenous people have been forgotten, under-appreciated, exploited — and our languages have a lot to do with it," Peruvian Quechuan singer and rapper Renata Flores Rivera tells Refinery29 over Zoom ...

The Peruvian Cajon is a very commonly used instrument in Afro-Peruvian music and Peruvian music in general. It is believed to have originated in colonial times but it took its definitive form in the ...

After the Gabriel Alegría Afro-Peruvian Sextet’s first set one recent rainy Saturday, Tutuma Social Club owner Santina Bari plugged the band’s CDs and quipped, “It’s much cheaper than opening up a ...

Introductory notes and bibliography by Harry Tschopik, Jr. ([6] p.) inserted in slipcase. Musicians of the Mestizo, the Quechua and Aymara Indian tribes, singing and playing traditional instruments, ...

The National Museum of the American Indian celebrates its newest exhibit, "The Great Inka Road: Engineering an Empire," and National Hispanic Heritage Month with a day-long program of family ...