02103nas a2200217   4500000000100000000000100001008004100002653002000043653001800063653001700081653001600098653003300114653001000147100002000157245014000177856015400317300001200471490000700483520137500490022002001865                                       d10aAfrican descent10aAfro-Peruvian10aAuthenticity10aBureaucracy10aIntangible cultural heritage10aMusic1 aRodrigo Chocano00aProducing African-descent: afro-peruvian music, intangible heritage, authenticity and bureaucracy in a Latin American music compilation  uhttps://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85067249108&doi=10.1080%2f13527258.2018.1542331&partnerID=40&md5=cd3ddb99a42ae3fff50abd3d9c76ffc6  a763-7790 v253 aPolicy and actions for the safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH) are laced with politics of representation and meaning-making of expressive culture within and outside communities. This article explores how ICH experts, practitioners, activists, and other actors negotiate and re-construct ideas of racial identity and authenticity in one such initiative. Sponsored by CRESPIAL in 2012, the album Cantos y Música Afrodescendientes de América Latina is a compilation of music of Afro-descendant communities in Latin America. Conceived as a project for safeguarding the musical ICH of these communities, it involved participation from thirteen Latin American governments. This paper, centered on the Peruvian participation in this project, studies the bureaucratic intricacies of this project, exploring how ideas on racial identity and authenticity overlap with political agendas and administrative requirements in order to produce a unified representation of ‘Afro-Latin American’ music. My analysis highlights 1) the local knowledge systems that inform the ideas of racial identity and authenticity advanced by the project’s actors; 2) their adopted strategies within Peru’s bureaucratic network of heritage management; and 3) the positionality, capacity and agency of each actor for achieving their particular goals in this collaborative project.  a13527258 (ISSN)