Discography: p. 315-316.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 295-314) and index.

Introduction: From Conima to Lima -- pt. 1. Music in Conima. 1. Instruments, Aesthetics, and Performance Practice. 2. The Collective and Competitive Nature of Musical Performance. 3. Making the Music: Rehearsals, Composition, and Musical Style. 4. Three Fiestas -- pt. 2. The Local, the National, and the Youth of Conima. 5. Qhantati Ururi of Conima. 6. The Urban Panpipe Movement and the Youth of Conima -- pt. 3. The Music of Conimeno Residents in Lima. 7. Conimenos in Lima and Regional Associations. 8. Centro Social Conima: Music and the Importance of Community. 9. The Framing of Experience: Festivals and Performance Occasions in Lima. 10. From Linda to Conima: The Residents Return Home -- Appendix 1: Calendar of Musical Occasions in Conima -- Appendix 2: Historical Background of the Musical Instruments -- Appendix 3: Musical Examples.

Increasingly popular in the United States and Europe, Andean panpipe and flute music draws its vitality from the traditions of rural highland villages and of rural migrants who have settled in Andean cities. In Moving Away from Silence, Thomas Turino describes panpipe and flute traditions in the context of this rural-urban migration and the turbulent politics that have influenced Peruvian society and local identities throughout this century. Turino's ethnography is the first large-scale study to concentrate on the pervasive effects of migration on Andean people and their music. Turino uses the.

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