Margot Loyola Palacios (September 15, 1918 – August 3, 2015) was a musician,

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singer and researcher of the

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of Chile and Latin America in general. Loyola was active as a musician and musical ethnographer/anthropologist for many decades. She published a large body of work dealing with musical

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s, folk music and customs of all Chilean regions as well as other South American countries. She also taught music.

Early career

Loyola was born in

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, Chile in 1918. She studied piano with

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and Elisa Gayán at the National Conservatory of Music of Chile, and studied song with Blanca Hauser. In 1952 she immersed herself in researching the typical Peruvian dances and musical forms, the ''

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'' and the '' resbalosa''. This allowed her to study the origins of these dances and to characterize the simililarities between the Peruvian and Chilean ones (''resfalosa'' and ''

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''). Subsequently, she worked with Porfirio Vásquez, the patriarch of black music in Peru, and then went on to study the indigenous culture of Peru with

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. Later, Loyola studied

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and Uruguayan

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and

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, with Carlos Vega and Lauro Ayestarán, respectively. In 1952, she began her celebrated research on the

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s of the Chilean north, with Rogelia Perez and other musicians and groups. Loyola researched the

and traditional musical styles of all the regions of Chile as well as

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(a Chilean province, located in the

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). She compiled and published a great deal of valuable material obtained from her scholarly research and was regarded as an artist and researcher of great authority. Among the art expressions she researched, some were virtually rescued from oblivion and

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by her work.

Legacy and recognition

Loyola created Chile's first

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and dance group, The Conjunto de Alumnos de Margot Loyola (Student Group of Margot Loyola), through which she effectively became an unofficial ambassadress of the

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. In 1972, Loyola became a professor of the

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, and in 1998 she was made a

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of the

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. She was awarded the coveted Chilean National Prize for Musical Arts in 1994 and the "Premio a lo Chileno" in 2001. She died on August 3, 2015 at the age of 96 in

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Works

Loyola's activities resulted in several books, videos, LPs, cassettes and CDs.

Bibliography

* "Bailes de tierra" (Earth dances), (1980) * "El Cachimbo", (1994)

Videography

* "Danzas tradicionales de Chile" (Traditional dances of Chile), (1994) * "La Zamacueca" (1999) * "Los del Estribo: Cantos y Danzas Populares de Chile", (2001)

Discography

* 14

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, 6

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and 7 CDs, in addition to other editions in various other countries

Notes

{{DEFAULTSORT:Loyola, Margot 1918 births 2015 deaths Chilean folk singers 20th-century Chilean women singers University of Chile alumni University of Chile faculty Pontifical Catholic University of Valparaíso faculty Chilean guitarists Chilean singer-songwriters Chilean people of Basque descent People from Linares Chilean folklorists Women folklorists Women in Latin music