Peru is located in western South America, bordering Ecuador, Colombia, Brazil, Bolivia, and Chile.
Peruvian Musical Genres
Landó – A Peruvian dance and song with its origins from a dance in Angola called “londu” that came with the slaves when they arrived in Brazil from Angola. Even today, the “londo” exists in Brazil. The Peruvian landó has become so closely associated with Black Peruvian music that it has almost become “the” sound of Black Peru. The landó is a mix of both Spanish and African rhythms.
Peruvian Musicians:
Alex Acuña; Cesar Peredo; Chabuca Granda; Ciro Hurtado; Eva Ayllón; Miryam Quiñones; Novalima; Perú Negro; Susana Baca; Tania Libertad.
Peruvian Music Books:
Black Rhythms of Peru, Wesleyan University Press (2006)
Making Music Indigenous: Popular Music in the Peruvian Andes (Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology), University of Chicago Press
The music of Peru: Aboriginal and viceroyal epochs, Pan American Union (1960)
Peruvian Recordings:
Traditional Music Of Peru 1: Festivals Of Cusco (Smithsonian Folkways, 1995)
Traditional Music Of Peru 2: The Mantaro Valley (Smithsonian Folkways, 1995)
Traditional Music Of Peru 3: Cajamarca & The Colca Valley (Smithsonian Folkways, 1996)
Traditional Music of Peru 4: Lambayeque (Smithsonian Folkways, 1996)
Traditional Music Of Peru Vol.5 – Celebrating Divinity in the High Andes (Smithsonian Folkways, 1999)
Traditional Music Of Peru 6: The Ayacucho Region (Smithsonian Folkways, 2001)
Traditional Music of Peru 7 – The Lima Highlands (Smithsonian Folkways, 2001)
Traditional Music Of Peru, Vol. 8: Piura (Smithsonian Folkways, 2002)
