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this section:  Musica Andina at the National Transportation Terminal Many in the industrialized world
may have heard their first Andean tune by way of Paul Simon and Art
Garfunkel, and others got a second-hand first exposure by way of Cusco,
a German "new age" band.
But this is a diverse regional culture that's millennia old and, like all living cultures, it's constantly changing. Increasingly, here and around the world, people have been hearing it performed by people of the ethnic groups that call it their own. Since the election of Evo Morales as president of Bolivia and the growth of inter-American indigenous networks with which that event coincided, the popularity of Andean music has exploded on the international scene. However, this cultural development has also coincided with the precipitous decline of the record companies, and moreover, promoters have not seen a way to make a lot of money on it. But Andean street music, wherein musicians play for what people drop in the basket and also sell cottage industry CDs of their work, is a growth industry here and one place where you are likely to encounter it is at the bus terminal in Albrook. Photo by Eric Jackson Also in
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