"Los Quitiplás"
Citation
People of the village of Curiepe, Miranda., “"Los Quitiplás",” Student Digital Gallery, accessed July 15, 2025, https://digitalgallery.bgsu.edu/student/items/show/8278.
| Title | "Los Quitiplás" |
|---|---|
| Description | In between 1939-1946 famed writer Juan Liscano traveled his native country of Venezuela to record the various musical folklore of the state's inhabitants. Selections were contextualized by Liscano and Charles Seeger, an ethnomusicologist and father of folk revivalist Pete Seeger. Las quitiplás are percussion instruments made of bamboo commonly used in performance by Afro-Venezuelans. Four sticks: a pujao (or macho) which is 50 to 60 cm high, a prima which is 40 cm high, and two sticks generically called quitiplá comprise the instrumentation. Four players squat and strike the ground with their respective bamboo element in synchronization. Percussive expression such as this was once prohibited by colonial bodies due to the subversive nature of communal performance inherently apart of folkloric ritual. |
| Creator | People of the village of Curiepe, Miranda. |
| Publisher | Library of Congress |
| Date | 1960 |
| Contributor | Juan Liscano and Charles Seeger |
| Format | MP3 |
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| Type | Music |
| Sound | |
| Identifier | Music Listening Center MUSIC12/33LCAFS-L15 |
| https://digitalgallery.bgsu.edu/student/items/show/8278 |