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Traditional Music- South America

  • Writer: adam kadishman shakine
    adam kadishman shakine
  • Jul 30
  • 4 min read

Updated: Jul 31

Colombia


Smithsonian folkways album:

-Music of Colombia


cumbia:

José Barros

Armando Hernandez

Lisandro meza

toto la momposina

alci Acosta

pastor lopez

los corraleros de majagual

Oscar agudelo

Gustavo quintero

los hispanos

La sonora dinamita

Gustavo quinetro

Adolfo aicardi

Chicos de barrio

Aniceto molina


vallenato:

musicians:

Guillermo Buitrago

Alejo Duran

Enrique Díaz

Emiliano Zuleta

Luis Enrique Martínez

Abel Antonio Villa

Lorenzo Morales

Diomedes diaz

Rafael Orozco Maestre

Miguel Morales

Jorge Oñate

Ivan Villazon

Nicolas "Colacho" Mendoza

Juan Humberto "Juancho" Rois

Omar Geles

Israel Romero

Peter Manjarrés

Silvestre Dangond

Los Gigantes Del Vallenato

Galy Galiano

Lisandro Meza 


Smithsonian folkways album:

- afro-Hispanic music from western Colombia and ecuador


Ecuador


Smithsonian folkways albums:

-lowland tribes of ecudor

-music of the Jivaro of ecuador


Venezuela


compilation album:

alan lomax( Colombia records)

-world library of folk & primitive music: venezuela


Smithsonian folkways albums:

-music of the Venezuelan yekuana (makiritare) Indians

-Dances of Venezuela

-Venezuela: Afro-Venezuelan Music, volumes 1 & 2


north east south America


Smithsonian folkways albums:

-music from saramaka: a dynamic Afro-American tradition

-creole music of suriname

-music of the haut oyapok, oyampii and emerillon Indians of French guiana

-traditional African ritual music of Guyana

-music of the coastal amerindians of guyana-the Arawak, carib and Warrau


north west south America


pasillo


nonesuch album:

-in praise of oxala and other gods/ black music of south America


Smithsonian folkways albums:

-Anthology of Central and South American Indian Music

-Indian Music of the Upper Amazon


brazil


Smithsonian folkways albums:

-songs and dances of brazil

-music from mato grosso

-musi of par,brazil: carimbo, pajelanca, batuque and umbanda


native Brazilian music


Smithsonian folkways albums:

-Anthology of Brazilian Indian Music: Karajá, Javahé, Kraho, Tukuna, Juruna, Suyá, Trumai Shukarramãe

-palicour Indians of the arucua river in brazil

-Ritual Music of the Kayapó-Xikrin, Brazil


capoeira

musicians:

mestre kenura

mestre cobra mansa

mestre pastinha

grupo de capoeira angola pelourinho

djalma correa

Paulo cesar Pinheiro

mestre traira

mestre suassuna & dirceu

camafeu de oxossi

mestre caicara

Carolina soares

mestre bimba

mestre acordeon

mestre vava & mestre macaco

mu mbana & mestre boca rica

mestre joao grande & mestre joao pequeno

mestre sumbi & contra mestre passarinho

mestre aranha

Guimaraes do berimbau

mestre nago

capoeira senzala de santos

mestre eziquiel

Silvio acarajemestre Paulo dos anjos

mestre tonho materia


samba de roda:

don edith do parto

as ganhanieras de itapua

viola de doze

edna lima ramos souza-samba de roda serrinha bahia

sambadores e sambadieras da bahia

nicina & raizes de santo amaro

nega duda

nossas raizes samba de roda

martinho da vila

alcione

heitor dos prazeres e sua gente

djalma correa

candeia

quinteto violado

martinho da vila

raichao

lucio Sanfilippo

samboa

roque Ferreira

samba chula de sao braz

chocolate de bahia

Guimaraes do berimbau

joao da baiana

ataulfo alves

Jorge Fernandez

olga de alaketo

j.b. de Carvalho

sururu na roda


samba:

donga

Sinhô 

Pixinguinha

Heitor dos Prazeres

João da Baiana

Caninha

baiano

Alfredo Carlos Bricio

Catulo da Paixão Cearense

Ismael Silva 

Heitor dos Prazeres 

Assis Valente

Carmen Miranda

Mário Reis

bide

Noel Rosa

Ary Barroso

Ataulfo Alves

Braguinha

Lamartine Babo 

cartola

Jonjoca

Castro Barbosa

Luís Barbosa

Cyro Monteiro

Dilermando Pinheiro

Aracy de Almeida

Marília Batista 


choro:

Joaquim Callado

Costa Júnior

Lourenço Lamartine

Irineu de Almeida

Grupo do Novo Cordão

Pixinguinha

Benedito Lacerda

Ernesto Nazareth

Chiquinha Gonzaga

Jacob do Bandolim

Dante Santoro

João Pernambuco 


forro


musicians:

luiz Gonzaga

Dominguinhos


albums:


brazil: forro- music for maids and taxi drivers (album)


Smithsonian folkways album:

-music of para, brazil: carimbo, pajelanca, batuque and Umbanda


Paraguay


musicians:

los tres paraguayos

Sergio sanabria

Alfredo Ronaldo ortiz


guarania:

Agustin barboza

jose asuncion flores

manuel Ortiz guerreo

lis alberto dlparaa

herminio Gimenez

demerio Ortiz

felix perez Cardozo

maneco galano

duo aguilera-britez

Eladio Martinez

emigdio ayala baez

carls lara nareiro

los idolos del folklore

neneonorton

luis saran

cearcataldo

le 4 guaranis

martin portillo

los alfonso

los chiriguanos

grupo generacion


Smithsonian folkways albums:

-maitei America: harps of Paraguay

artists included:

marcelo rojas

alfredo gryciuk

ariel burgos

martin portillo

alejo benitez

Nicolas caballero

Sebastian ortiz


Uruguay


Santiago chalar:

-candombe


Argentina/Uruguay


tango


musicians:

carlos gardel

Francisco canaro

anibal troilo

carlos di sarli

juan D'arienzo

alfredo de angelis

hugo del carril

julio sosa

Edmundo p. zaldivar

Juan Más Morales 

Rosita Quiroga

Ciriaco Ortiz

Manuel Acosta Villafañe

Juan Andrés Pérez

José Luis Padula

Aníbal Troilo 

Roberto Grela

Edmundo Rivero

Charlo 

chiko diaz


Argentina


Smithsonian folkways albums:

-selk'nam (ona) chants of tierra del fuego, Argentina: vol. 1 & vol. 2

-Octavio Corvalan: Argentine Folk Songs

-Segundo Castro: Folk Dances and Dance Songs of Argentina

-Los Hermanos Abalos: Traditional Dances of Argentina

-Antonio tormo: Antonio tormo sings old favorites from Argentina

-suni paz: bandera mia: songs of Argentina

-Argentine: tritonic musics of the north-west

-maria luisa buchino: music of Argentina


Bolivia:


Smithsonian folkways albums:

-instruments and music of Indians of Bolivia

-songs and dances of Bolivia

-Bolivia: panpipes


peru


Smithsonian folkways album:

-folk music of peru


nonesuch albums:

-fiestas of peru- music of the high andes

--kingdom of the sun- peru's inca heritage


Smithsonian folkways albums:

-huayno music of peru


chile


Smithsonian folkways albums:

-ameridian music of chile: Aymara, qaqashqar, mapuche

-Rolando Alarcón: Traditional Chilean Songs

-Martina and Maria Eugenia Diaz Songs of Chile



Andean music

musicians:

los incas

Ruphay

Grupo Aymara

lzmilla carpio

vioeta para

inti-Illimani

Alborada

martina potocarrero

Jaime Guardia

ls kjarkas

los jairas

grupo agua

illapu

rumillajta

Micaela chauque

Jamie guadia

manuelcha prado

Inti Llajta


yurac malki:

-music from equador, peru & Bolivia (album)


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