Despite the attention given to the transnational circulation of Andean music, its reception and adoption by European musicians have been rarely researched. This article focuses on the specific case of Italy, where the Andean music boom blended with that of the New Chilean Song in exile (1973-89) and where, in addition, repertoires and practices of both musics were adopted by dozens of local groups formed by young Italians. Those Italian groups - with their performative strategies and their choices of repertoires - provide a privileged lookout about how different representations of the andeaneity (the Nueva Canción Chilena with its ethical and political connotations, the musique des Andes of the French matrix, the autóctonas indigenist currents) interacted in creating an Italian imagery of the Andes. They also suggest how the adoption of 'someone else's music' can act, with its transcultural complexity, in the elaboration of personal narratives of identity.

'They Fell like Meteorites': Avatars of the Andean Sound and Their Reception by Italian Music Groups (1973-1996) / Gavagnin, S.. - In: TWENTIETH-CENTURY MUSIC. - ISSN 1478-5722. - 17:3(2020), pp. 381-399. [10.1017/S1478572220000183]

'They Fell like Meteorites': Avatars of the Andean Sound and Their Reception by Italian Music Groups (1973-1996)

Gavagnin S.
2020

Abstract

Despite the attention given to the transnational circulation of Andean music, its reception and adoption by European musicians have been rarely researched. This article focuses on the specific case of Italy, where the Andean music boom blended with that of the New Chilean Song in exile (1973-89) and where, in addition, repertoires and practices of both musics were adopted by dozens of local groups formed by young Italians. Those Italian groups - with their performative strategies and their choices of repertoires - provide a privileged lookout about how different representations of the andeaneity (the Nueva Canción Chilena with its ethical and political connotations, the musique des Andes of the French matrix, the autóctonas indigenist currents) interacted in creating an Italian imagery of the Andes. They also suggest how the adoption of 'someone else's music' can act, with its transcultural complexity, in the elaboration of personal narratives of identity.
2020
andean music; new chilean song; italian reception; simpathetic diaspora
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'They Fell like Meteorites': Avatars of the Andean Sound and Their Reception by Italian Music Groups (1973-1996) / Gavagnin, S.. - In: TWENTIETH-CENTURY MUSIC. - ISSN 1478-5722. - 17:3(2020), pp. 381-399. [10.1017/S1478572220000183]
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