List of South American folk music traditions explained

This is a list of folk music traditions, with styles, dances, instruments and other related topics. The term folk music can not be easily defined in a precise manner; it is used with widely varying definitions depending on the author, intended audience and context within a work. Similarly, the term traditions in this context does not connote any strictly-defined criteria. Music scholars, journalists, audiences, record industry individuals, politicians, nationalists and demagogues may often have occasion to address which fields of folk music are distinct traditions based along racial, geographic, linguistic, religious, tribal or ethnic lines, and all such peoples will likely use different criteria to decide what constitutes a "folk music tradition". This list uses the same general categories used by mainstream, primarily English-language, scholarly sources, as determined by relevant statements of fact and the internal structure of works.

These traditions may coincide entirely, partially or not at all with geographic, political, linguistic or cultural boundaries. Very few, if any, music scholars would claim that there are any folk music traditions that can be considered specific to a distinct group of people and with characteristics undiluted by contact with the music of other peoples; thus, the folk music traditions described herein overlap in varying degrees with each other.

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Afro-Colombian[1] champeta
Argentina[2] [3] [4]
Aymara[5] [6]
Bolivia[7]
Brazil[8] [9] [10] [11]
Chile[12]
Colombia[13] [14]
Ecuadorcurrulao
Andean[15]
Kallawayak'antu
Peru
Quechua[16]
Sirionó[17] None
Suyá[18] akíarattle
Uruguay[19]
Venezuela[20]
ParaguayParaguayan polka

Sources

Notes and References

  1. Burton, Kim, "El Sonido Dorado" in the Rough Guide to World Music, pp. 372–385
  2. Manuel, Popular Musics, pp. 59–60
  3. Peiro, Teddy and Jan Fairley, "Vertical Expression of Horizontal Desire", and Fairley's "Dancing Cheek to Cheek", both in the Rough Guide to World Music, pgs. 304–314 and 315–316
  4. Nettl, Folk and Traditional Music, p. 190
  5. Turino, pp. 239–240
  6. Fairley, Jan, "Beyond the Ponchos", in the Rough Guide to World Music, pp. 273–288
  7. http://www.worldmusiccentral.org/staticpages/index.php/glossary World Music Central
  8. Manuel, Popular Musics, p. 64
  9. Turino, pp. 245–246
  10. Cleary, David, "Meu Brasil Brasileiro", in the Rough Guide to World Music, pp. 332–349
  11. Nettl, Folk and Traditional Music, p. 191
  12. Schechter, John M., "Latin America/Ecuador" in Worlds of Music, pp. 376–427
  13. Turino, p. 244
  14. Manuel, Popular Musics, pp. 50–52
  15. Fairley, Jan, "Beyond the Ponchos" and "An Uncompromising Song", in the Rough Guide to World Music, pp. 273–288, and pp. 362–371
  16. Turino, pp. 239–240, 242
  17. Nettl, Folk and Traditional Music, p. 149
  18. Turino, p. 243
  19. Slater, Russ, In a Nutshell: Candombe Sounds and Colours
  20. Sweeney, Philip and Dan Rosenberg, "Salsa Con Gasolina", in the Rough Guide to World Music, pp. 624–630

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