Centro Qosqo de Arte Nativo

This guide to the Centro Qosqo de Arte Nativo in Cusco starts with a question a group of young musicians came home from Lima worrying about in 1924: how do you save a song that was never written down. Under Luis Alberto Pardo Durand, they founded what became Peru's first folkloric institution, sending members into highland villages to watch, listen and transcribe steps and tunes that existed only in memory. Their notes and recollections were brought back here to be rehearsed and catalogued rather than left to depend on any one memory.