Regarding new sounds for new queens: prescriptions and musical-ritual practices in the south Andean colonial area

Abstract

On the basis of the need to integrate the vernacular contribuion to the music in a more suitable way, this article analyzes the indigenous musical practice and culture from both the pre-Hispanic and colonial period, focusing on the South Andean region and particularly in Chile, Its first section raises some epistemological and methodological problems in the musicological production about indigenous music, while the second part examines more specific cases and sources, relating them to new contributions which expand the current knowledge and approaches on this subject.