Music in the National Folklore Ensamble: notes and reflections on its beginning and its subsequent projection, on the 50th anniversary of its foundation

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https://doi.org/10.62230/antec.v7i1.178

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National Folklore Ensamble, Victoria Santa Cruz, 50th anniversary

Abstract

This text deals with the music and musicians who were part of the first group that joined the newly founded Conjunto Nacional de Folklore in the 1970s. To do so, it begins by describing the context in which its creation took place and how the process of appointing Victoria Santa Cruz as its director unfolded. Next, to address the music within the artistic entity, three aspects are presented: first, an account is given of the profile that the musicians were expected to have in the director's vision, how this played out in practice, as well as a register of the names of the first members. Then, the role of the musical advisor in the artistic group is described, before finally providing an overview of the music played in the first years of the ensemble, drawing on various documentary materials and some oral testimonies. As a complement to all of the above, and prior to some final reflections, it is also shown how a public institution today is symbolically trying to continue the group founded by Victoria Santa Cruz 50 years ago.

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Author Biography

  • Ricardo López Alcas, Escuela Nacional Superior de Folklore José María Arguedas

    He is a multi-instrumentalist musician with percussion studies at the National Conservatory of Music of Peru. He has a bachelor's degree in Musicology from the National University of Music and a bachelor's degree in Art and Culture from the José María Arguedas National School of Folklore in Lima, specializing in percussion. He has published musicological articles since 2016. He participated as a speaker and artist in the II Congress of Ethno and Archaeomusicology held in Mexico and organized by three universities in Latin America (2023), in the VIII Academic Conference of Music Sciences of the Superior Conservatory National of Ecuador (2021), at the II Meeting of Archaeomusicology of the Americas at the University of the Andes of Colombia (2019) and the II Congress of Ethnomusicology of the Faculty of Music of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (2018). He was a member of various musical groups, including the National Folklore Ensemble of Peru (2013-2019), the musical group of the Peruvian singer Luz Merly Santa Cruz and some indie rock, rock fusion and blues bands such as Fútbol en la Escuela, Del Pueblo, Los Nómadas and Ciudad Blues. During 2022 he has been a teacher at the School of Folklore in subjects such as Introduction to Ethnomusicology, Pre-professional Practice and Traditional Peruvian Music in the Professional Artist-Music career and is currently a cultural researcher in the Ethnomusicology line of the Research Directorate of said institution and member of musical groups such as Pacha Wakay Munan – music with pre-Hispanic instruments, with which he has just published his first record production.

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ENSFJMA [Escuela Nacional Superior de Folklore José María Arguedas]. (25 de setiembre de 2018). SABERES - Cap 13 "CONJUNTO ANDINO AMAZÓNICO - CNF" [Archivo de video]. Youtube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GsyRtNkrtb8

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Published

2023-06-28

How to Cite

López Alcas, R. (2023). Music in the National Folklore Ensamble: notes and reflections on its beginning and its subsequent projection, on the 50th anniversary of its foundation. Antec: Revista Peruana De Investigación Musical, 7(1), 74-97. https://doi.org/10.62230/antec.v7i1.178