I was always around black music, but I never heard it on the radio. You could never learn about it in school. But now you can. We've made a school. They're studying songs, music, theory, and analyzing traditional music and pop.
People can take real academic courses in voice and theory.
The institute has music and dance studios, a library and an archive, and their efforts are producing visible results. The young kids play rock, like they do almost anywhere else. But the ones she sees in the institute fuse it with more traditional elements, and end up with brand new hybrids, and brand new voices uniquely Peruvian. Tucson Weekly . Info Booth .