The Department of Folklore, Institute for Musical Research, University of Chile

Abstract

The progenitor of the present Folklore Department of the Institute for Musical Research in the Faculty of Musical Arts and Sciences at the University of Chile in Santiago, was the Institute for Folk Music Research, established in 1943 upon the initiative of a committee composed of Eugenio Pereira, Alfonso Letelier, Vicente Salas, Carlos Lavin, Carlos Isamitt, Jorge Urrutia and Filomena Salas. Some members of this committee were also members of the Faculty of Fine Arts of that time, which encouraged this venture