Since the 1970s, Latin American cities such as Lima, La Paz, Buenos Aires, Santiago, and Bogotá have witnessed the emergence and development of music scenes focused on the collective interpretation of the Andean Pan flutes known by the aimara name sikus. Despite the fact that most of the participants of these scenes did not grow in family, community or regional contexts in which sikuri musical practices were generationally transferred, today they assume these as their own while adapting their uses and meanings to their own social environments and agendas. Based on several multi-sited fieldwork sessions in the metropolitan Buenos Aires, Santiago, and Bogota scenes, I argue that their growing interconnectedness has given shape to a transnational movement. I also explore the notions of authenticity and respect as mechanisms through which the sikuris negotiate their legitimacy as performers...

A partir de la década de 1970, ciudades latinoamericanas como Lima, La Paz, Buenos Aires, Santiago y Bogotá han atestiguado el surgimiento y desarrollo de escenas musicales basadas la interpretación colectiva de las flautas de Pan conocidas con el nombre aimara de sikus —instrumentos originalmente interpretados por agricultores indígenas en los Andes centrales. Aunque la mayoría de quienes participan en estas escenas no crecieron en contextos en que la interpretación de sikus formara parte de un traspaso generacional,hoy asumen esta práctica como propia y le confieren usos y significados funcionales a sus propios entornos y agendas. Con base en numerosas jornadas de trabajo de campo multisituado al interior de las escenas sikuri de Buenos Aires, Santiago y Bogotá, en este artículo argumento que su creciente interconexión ha dado forma a un movimiento transnacional. Exploro la...

Since the 1970s, Latin American cities such as Lima, La Paz, Buenos Aires, Santiago, and Bogotá have witnessed the emergence and development of music scenes focused on the collective interpretation of the Andean Pan flutes known by the aimara name sikus. Despite the fact that most of the participants of these scenes did not grow in family, community or regional contexts in which sikuri musical practices were generationally transferred, today they assume these as their own while adapting their uses and meanings to their own social environments and agendas. Based on several multi-sited fieldwork sessions in the metropolitan Buenos Aires, Santiago, and Bogota scenes, I argue that their growing interconnectedness has given shape to a transnational movement. I also explore the notions of authenticity and respect as mechanisms through which the sikuris negotiate their legitimacy as performers...

In this article, I follow the discourses elaborated around música latinoamericana («Latin American music»), a broad musical category encompassing a wide range of Latin American —but especially Andean— folk genres within successive, interrelated «cultural projects». I examine the extra-musical meanings attributed to this stylistic mode in the nueva canción (new song) movements of protest music in the Southern Cone, the transnational nueva canción latinoamericana (Latin American New Song) network to which they gave rise, and ultimately focus on música latinoamericana’s development in Colombia. During the mid 1970s, the initial Colombian practitioners of música latinoamericana adopted several facets of the discourse pertaining to this music along with the musical models themselves from nueva canción latinoamericana. However, they later reined claims about the style’s signi...

In this article, I follow the discourses elaborated around música latinoamericana («Latin American music»), a broad musical category encompassing a wide range of Latin American —but especially Andean— folk genres within successive, interrelated «cultural projects». I examine the extra-musical meanings attributed to this stylistic mode in the nueva canción (new song) movements of protest music in the Southern Cone, the transnational nueva canción latinoamericana (Latin American New Song) network to which they gave rise, and ultimately focus on música latinoamericana’s development in Colombia. During the mid 1970s, the initial Colombian practitioners of música latinoamericana adopted several facets of the discourse pertaining to this music —along with the musical models themselves— from nueva canción latinoamericana. However, they later reined claims about the styl...

In this article, I follow the discourses elaborated around música latinoamericana («Latin American music»), a broad musical category encompassing a wide range of Latin American —but especially Andean— folk genres within successive, interrelated «cultural projects». I examine the extra-musical meanings attributed to this stylistic mode in the nueva canción (new song) movements of protest music in the Southern Cone, the transnational nueva canción latinoamericana (Latin American New Song) network to which they gave rise, and ultimately focus on música latinoamericana’s development in Colombia. During the mid 1970s, the initial Colombian practitioners of música latinoamericana adopted several facets of the discourse pertaining to this music —along with the musical models themselves— from nueva canción latinoamericana. However, they later reined claims about the styl...