In this
Spanish name
, the first or paternal
surname
is
Loyola
and the second or maternal family name is
Palacios
.
Margot Loyola in 2013
Margot Loyola Palacios
(September 15, 1918 ? August 3, 2015) was a musician,
folk
singer and researcher of the
folklore
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
styles
, folk music and
customs
of all Chilean regions as well as other South American countries. She also taught music.
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Early career
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Loyola was born in
Linares
, Chile in 1918. She studied piano with
Rosita Renard
and Elisa Gayan 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
marinera
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
cueca
). Subsequently, she worked with Porfirio Vasquez, the patriarch of black music in Peru, and then went on to study the
indigenous
culture of Peru with
Jose Maria Arguedas
.
Later, Loyola studied
Argentine
and Uruguayan
traditional
and
folk music
, with Carlos Vega and Lauro Ayestaran, respectively. In 1952, she began her celebrated research on the
ceremonial dances
of the Chilean north, with Rogelia Perez and other musicians and groups. Loyola researched the
folklore
and traditional musical styles of all the regions of Chile as well as
Easter Island
(a Chilean province, located in the
south Pacific Ocean
). 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
extinction
by her work.
Legacy and recognition
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Loyola created Chile's first
traditional music
and dance group, The Conjunto de Alumnos de Margot Loyola (Student Group of Margot Loyola),
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through which she effectively became an unofficial ambassadress of the
Chilean culture
.
In 1972, Loyola became a professor of the
University of Chile
, and in 1998 she was made a
Professor emeritus
of the
Catholic University of Valparaiso
.
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She was awarded the coveted Chilean
National Prize for Musical Arts
in 1994
[4]
and the "Premio a lo Chileno" in 2001.
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She died on August 3, 2015, at the age of 96 in
Santiago de Chile
.
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Works
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Loyola's activities resulted in several books, videos, LPs, cassettes and CDs.
Bibliography
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- "Bailes de tierra" (Earth dances), (1980)
- "El Cachimbo", (1994)
Videography
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- "Danzas tradicionales de Chile" (Traditional dances of Chile), (1994)
- "La
Zamacueca
" (1999)
- "Los del Estribo: Cantos y Danzas Populares de Chile", (2001)
Discography
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- 14
LPs
, 6
cassettes
and 7 CDs, in addition to other editions in various other countries
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