Camino del Indio
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| Camino del Indio | ||||
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| Released | 1955 | |||
| Genre | Argentine folk | |||
| Label | Odeon | |||
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Camino del Indio is both a song and an album by Argentine singer and guitarist Atahualpa Yupanqui.
The song was written by Yupanqui in the 1920s, though he did not record it until 1936. It is one of Yupanqui's most famous and analyzed songs.[1] It has been described by multiple sources as "a classic" of Argentine music.[2][3]
The lyrics describe the path of Argentina's indigenous people, a winding path strewn with stones, singing in the hills, crying in the river. One analyst wrote that the song "painted a nostalgic landscape very different from cynical, urban tango lyrics, invoking the timelessness of indigenous Argentina."[4] Another writer described the song as poignant in its depiction of "a rural path as the window through which we see the sufferings of the Indian of the campo, or countryside."[5]