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Peruvian Music: Peruvian Rock, El Cóndor Pasa, National Symphony Orchestra, Música Criolla, Kantu, Music of Peru, El Cóndor Pasa, Magaly Solier
Paperback. Books LLC 2010-09-15.
ISBN 9781156789957
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Chapters: Peruvian Rock, El Cóndor Pasa, National Symphony Orchestra, Música Criolla, Kantu, Music of Peru, El Cóndor Pasa, Magaly Solier, Toro Mata, Number-One Hits of 2009, Landó, Diablada Puneña, Música Negra, Andean New Age, Festejo. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 50. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Rock entered the Peruvian scene in the late-1950s, through listening to performers like Elvis Presley, Buddy Holly and Bill Haley, who popularized rockabilly in the United States. The first Peruvian rock bands appeared during this time. They included Los Millonarios del Jazz, Los Stars, Conjunto Astoria, Los Alfiles, Los Incas Modernos, Los Zodiacs and Los Atomos. New trends like British merseybeat and American surf became popular. A number of Peruvian bands built a loyal audience. Among them, Los Saicos who fusioned psychedelic rock, garage rock and surf, Los Yorks, Los Jaguares, Los Silvertons, Los Belkings, Los Doltons and Los Shains who featured rock guitar hero Pico Ego-Aguirre (later at Pax), as well as Traffic Sound, the first Peruvian supergroup, merging core players from Los Hang Ten's with other important musicians. During the military dictatorship of the late '60s and '70s, rock was outcast as an alienating phenomenon by the government of General Juan Velasco Alvarado in various ways: banning concerts in key venues, banning the import of "alienating and Yankee" American rock music, and even banning a highly anticipated Carlos Santana concert. Despite this, some bands that left their mark were El Polen, Traffic Sound, Pax, We All Together, Telegraph Avenue, Black Sugar, Crossroads, Tripping Foxters, Red Amber, and Fragil. Other than them, Peruvian rock descended into its most obscure era during the mid '70s, losing the momentum it had laboriously gained. Disco music an...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=1233393
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