Valdimar Hafstein

The Flight of the Condor: A Letter, a Song and the Story of Intangible Cultural Heritage

áslaug einarsdóttir, Valdimar Hafstein

The Flight of the Condor traces the global circulation of the melody “El Condor Pasa”: from the Andes mountains to global metropoles; from Lima to Paris to New York, and back; from panpipes to piano and from symphony orchestras to the disco; from indigenous to popular music; and from world music back to national heritage.