Another topic of controversy. http://www.peru.com/noticias/idocs/2006/3/4/DetalleDocumento_286132.asp
Peru, Bolivia and Chile are always involved in a love triangle. I swear. well, it hasn't been determined where it actually comes from. It's known that the quechuas and aymars used it. but since those civilizations were all over the place in the Andes, it could be anyone's. Bolivia claims it, Peru claimst it. Who knows. ahhh. cuando aprenderan los rotos. choros!
They have no culture so they try to take ours. They tried to take the desert (food) Suspiro Limeño, Pisco, what else?
they lack national identity and it is only fitting that a symbol of their culture is something stolen.
The funny thing is, all these years after supressing their indian culture (mapuches), they've now decided that it's a good idea to bring out some of it in order to seem cultural in some way or another. I don't doubt that chileans have culture, as their mapuche people have been there way before the white man, obviously. But to try to steal other people's culture in order to "restart" theirs, its simply funny.
charangos, quenas, and zampoñas are from the altiplano (Peru-Bolivia) Chile has no part in it. I also thought it was funny that Bono got a charango from Chile?? Gianmarco uses his charango pretty often in his music, I especially like it in "Lejos de ti" (from the Resucitar CD)you guys should check it out.
Well said, and I have thought of it this way too. All those "white" countries in SA only bring up there Indian culture "cuando les conviene".
Mi quirquincho alegre cantará According to this, the charango is from Alto Peru. http://www.aymara.org/waruru.php "Todas los vestigios históricos indican que para los antiguos aymaras eran desconocidos los instrumentos de cuerda. Los españoles les introdujeron la guitarra, pero en algún lugar del norte potosino y en algún instante del siglo de XVII, se inventó el khirkhinchu, un pariente pequeño de la guitarra, que es actualmente conocido como Charango. El vocablo khirkhinchu es una palabra aymara que significa armadillo que es un típico animal pequeño de sudamerica con una caparazón ósea."
made of coca too! http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060313/od_nm/usa_charango_dc_1 evo is also claiming it then?
El viceministro de Cultura, Édgar Arandia Quiroga, sugirió que durante su visita a Chile el presidente de la República, Evo Morales Aima, regale a la futura mandataria de ese país, Michelle Bachelet, un charango. "Hay que pedirle al presidente Evo Morales que regale un charango a Bachelet, diciéndole que es un instrumento de origen potosino. Vamos a aprovechar la imagen del Presidente en Chile para defender nuestro patrimonio, porque el charango es boliviano", afirmó Arandia. Ernesto Cavour, reconocido maestro boliviano del charango, aseguró que el instrumento tiene origen en Potosí en el siglo XVI. http://www.bolivia.com/noticias/autonoticias/DetalleNoticia31667.asp Evo played the trumpet in Banda Real Imperial. Maybe he should have given her one of those.
