Andean Music - Genres and Relationships To Other Musical Styles

Genres and Relationships To Other Musical Styles

• Carnavalito
• Diablada - Originated in Oruro, Bolivia as sort of music typically associated with the diablada dance and its festivals.
• Tinku - Originated in Potosi, Bolivia from the ritual of violent sacrifice to the mother earth to ensure the best look, good fortune and the prosperity of the next seasons crops.
• San Juanito - Originated in Ecuador.
• Huayno - Originated in colonial Peru as a combination of traditional rural folk music and popular urban dance music. High-pitched vocals are accompanied by a variety of instruments, including quena (flute), harp, siku (panpipe), accordion, saxophone, charango, lute, violin, guitar, and mandolin. Some elements of huayño originate in the music of the pre-Columbian Andes, especially on the territory of former Inca Empire. Huayno utilizes a distinctive rhythm in which the first beat is stressed and followed by two short beats.
• Afro-Bolivian Saya
• Chicha - Originated in Peru the late 80s as a fusion of cumbia and huayno music.