El Muki

Chalena Vásquez

Rosa Elena Vásquez Rodríguez, generally known as Chalena Vásquez, (1950–2016) was a Peruvian composer, music researcher and ethnomusicologist. At the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru (PUCP), she gave courses on folklore and anthropology of art and from 1992 directed the university's Music and Dance Centre. Her books document the history of Andean and Afro-Peruvian music. For La práctica musical de la población negra en el Perú. Danza de Negritos de El Carmen she received the Musicology Award from the Cuban Casa de las Américas in 1982. more »