Throughout history, music has had a significant impact on the development of human social interaction, playing a part in events such as military campaigns and religious festivals, music has often been linked with social and political progress. In my dissertation I plan to talk about modern day music produced by Peruvian artists and how they have been affected by the Shining Paths violent attempt at revolution against their oppressive military government, looking at their impact on Peruvian communities and discussing in detail how this effected the music they produced. From this research I am to identify and evaluate the impact of such a brutal régime on the music produced by children born into a society still plagued by its actions. In this chapter I will give an overview of my dissertation, first introducing the background and context of my discussion, followed by the research problem, research aims and objectives as well as the significance and the limitations of the study.
I am going to focus my study on modern day Peruvian music and how it is being used as social and political activism, focusing primarily on the music produced by two Peruvian born individuals; Renata Flores Rivera and Felipe Andres Coronel. Renata Flores is a Peruvian born singer-songwriter born in Huamanga, the capital of the Ayacucho province of Peru in March 2001. She has been most credited for her use of the native Quechua language, ‘”I sing in Quechua as a voice of warning, because the language is being lost. Children and young people are ashamed to speak it. They think only poor people in the Andes mountains speak it,” said Flores’ (Roberto Cortijo, 2015) She is now using her ancestral language in her modern-day trap music to promote causes she cares about such as feminist and indigenous activism. Felipe Andres Coronel; also known as Immortal Technique, war born in Peru, Technique’s family fled the country as the civil war started to break out, moving to Harlem, New York.
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