Moche music: foundations, worldview and duality (2015) and Nasca music: foundations, permanence and change (2016)

Américo Valencia Chacón / Lima: Centro de Investigación y Desarrollo de la Música Peruana

Abstract

The musicologist Américo Valencia Chacón initiated one of the most important research projects related to “pre-Hispanic” cultures in the last decades of the 20th century, and whose most consummate concretization is shown in the two important musicological texts that concern us today. These are two texts that complement each other for a complete understanding of his proposal, since they speak of potential musical and sound aspects of two important cultures that developed in this territory during the early Intermediate Period (200 BC – 600 AD): the Moche culture and the Nasca culture.