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This article reviews the compositional practice of Peruvian electroacoustic music in the 1960s, to investigate the methods and sources of influence on music and new technologies of that time. It therefore explores local expressions and national and regional identities through elements of folk and traditional music used in these practices. The analysis of this repertoire, from a cross-cultural perspective, sheds new light on the history and originality of experimental art and music in Peru, as well as on Peruvian ethnomusicology. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article studies Arguedas' intellectual practices with technology (the voice recorder, music records, the radio) concerning the transformation of Andean popular music in the context of mass immigration in Peru during the second half of the twentieth century. Arguedas' intellectual response to the impact of capitalism on culture in the Andes is analyzed through die concept of mass culture. Arguedas simultaneously promotes and rejects this impact, since he perceives the potential for a positive reformulation of the quest for nationhood in Peru, as well as die impending destruction of traditional Andean cultures. Moreover, Arguedas' reflection on the role of music in Andean culture is discussed through die concept of popular public sphere. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]