Los cuatro ases de la jarana
Staffo has given me a CD of 'jarana's four aces', a collection of previously un-released field recordings from the streets of Lima made in the 1950s by Latin American literary historian José Durand Flórez (1925-1990) which have been restored and archived by British Library Sound Archive. The jarana is an example of an improvised vocal duel. The duels are accompanied by triple-time accompaniment of two guitars (the primera guitarra supports and sustains the melodic line while the segundo guitarra plays ostinato figures), the cajón peruano (the Peruvian wooden box drum) and palmas (handclaps - an essential element of jarana).
Known locally as 'los cuatro ases de la jarana' (the four aces), and renowned as the finest practitioners of the dexterous craft, Manuel Quintana Olivares, Augusto Ascuez Villanueva, Alias Ascuez Villanueva and Luciano Huambachano Temoche - who lived among the urban poor and mainly black slums and ghettos of Lima - developed a virtuosic ability to use rhyme to compete for social recognition and supremacy.
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