La Flûte Indienne: The Early History of Andean Folkloric-Popular Music in France and its Impact on Nueva Canción.

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      This article chronicles the early history of Andean folkloric-popular music in France and discusses its impact on the Nueva Canción movement's emergence in 1960s Chile and reception in post-1973 Europe. I explain that Argentine artists from Buenos Aires introduced highland Andean instruments and genres into Paris's artistic milieu, where Andean music became associated with leftism well before the arrival of exiled Nueva Canción artists. This article not only documents yet another instance of nonindigenous (mis)representations of Amerindian musical traditions, but also reveals an early moment in the politicization of non Western music for European mass markets that has been overlooked in World Beat scholarship. I argue that this case study lends credence to Thomas Turino's general observation (2003) that transnational musical processes usually viewed by scholars as cross-cultural interactions between the local and the global can be often conceptualized more accurately as phenomena occurring within the same cosmopolitan cultural formation. Rounding out this essay are some closing thoughts and a brief postlude. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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      Este articulo presenta una crónica de la historia temprana de la musica andina folklórica-popular en Francia, analizando su influencia en la aparición de Nueva Canción durante la decada de los años 1960 en Chile y la recepción de este movimiento artístico después de 1973 en Europa. Explico que músicos argentinos de Buenos Aires introdujeron géneros e instrumentos andinos al ambiente artístico de París, donde la musica andina llegó a ser asociada con el izquierdismo bien antes de la llegada de artistas exiliados del movimiento Nueva Canción. Este artículo no sólo documenta como las tradiciones indígenas han sido representadas erróneamente sino también revela un momento temprano en la politización de la música no-occidental para el mercado europeo que ha sido ignorado en la literatura sobre World Beat Sostengo que este estudio presta crédito a la observación de Thomas Turino (2003) que procesos musicales transnacionales generalmente entendidos por analistas como interacciones interculturales entre lo local y lo global pueden ser conceptualizados con más precisión en muchos casos como fenómenos que ocurren dentro de la misma cultura cosmopolita. Concluyo este ensayo con algunas reflexiones. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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