This research aims to describe and explain the transformation and cultural rationalization of the musical genre wayliya, which is integral to the complex festive system of takanakuy, primarily practiced in the Cusco province of Chumbivilcas. A brief overview of recent developments in the wayliya chumbivilcana congresses will be provided to demonstrate this phenomenon, along with the documents produced in these settings.
It will be argued that these congresses constitute spaces where symbolic violence is exercised through regulations and normative instruments developed by local intellectuals and through the traditionalist discourse promoted by local governments. Additionally, brief reflections will be offered on the emerging intolerance and stigmatization of takanakuy by state institutions and the media, as a consequence of this rationalization.
