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music of peru

Peru is where the indigenous population built one of the greatest pre-Columbian civilizations of America…the Empire of the Incas. The Inca Empire extended from Quito, in Ecuador to northern Chile in the south, Peru suffered one of the main waves of Spanish colonial conquest, Living and cultural patterns developed by the Spaniards were superimposed upon the indigenous population.

During the early centuries of the conquest, native dances and instruments were considered dangerous. The church fought the indigenous art on religious grounds. In 1614, the Archbishop of Lima mandated that all native musical instruments were to be burned.

Pre-Columbian Peru seems to have had an active musical life as judged from musical instruments excavated from prehistoric ruins. Pan-pipes, flutes, whistles, rattles, bells and trumpets mad...

Posted by: Sean Wilson

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