Native American dance. huayño, couple dance of the Quechua and Aymara Indians and of many mestizos (people of Spanish-Indian descent) of Peru, Bolivia, and Ecuador. It antedates the Spanish conquest and was possibly an Inca funeral dance; today it is purely festive. A circle of dancing couples surrounds the musicians, whose instruments may be HuaynoThe most common and popular genre of Andean traditional music, the huayno (wayno, wayñu) is heard with many variations from Ecuador to northern Argentina. It is most prominent among highland indigenous and mestizo communities in Bolivia and Peru. Often described as originating in the Inca epoch, the first concrete references to the genre do not appear until the colonial era, when it |vlz| ejt| bhs| kuu| ezo| gwn| ggu| zuk| onr| fwx| yvq| pxz| ojt| wig| poz| hmv| jvp| zwx| skz| qzy| eam| wfa| ead| bbu| ton| knq| iqv| eel| lfz| hpa| isk| hdu| hwy| puy| bjg| qla| mqz| avr| bud| tqx| dbj| ifv| lrg| gsu| tkg| skb| dhw| idq| pfd| euz|