Abstract: Situated in contemporary debates concerned with culture and globalization, this dissertation engages in a socio-spatial analysis of globalized Andean and Afroperuvian music in order to critically examine the local, national, and transnational deployment of sonic cultures. In it, I address a broad range of globalized musical texts and practices, including the internationalized early twentieth-century ballad 'El Condor Pasa' and the recently popularized Afroperuvian anthem 'María Landó.' Drawing upon the divergent analytics, methods, and vocabularies of contemporary Latina/o Studies, revisionist historiography, and spatial theory, my research explores how traveling sonic cultures can and have been mobilized to disarticulate commonsense historical narratives and geographic landscapes in the context of transnational immigrant subject and community formation, postcolonial nation-building, and US-led global interventionism. Over the past several decades, the unprecedented dispersal and ubiquity of globalized cultural forms such as world(ed) music have prompted extensive debates in social and cultural theory about how globalization's dramatic reorganization of socio-spatial relations has shaped cultural production and forms. While attentive to the relations of capital and power that mark contemporary economic restructuring, this scholarship is often undermined by a near-exclusive focus on the transformation in the content and form of cultural products, characteristically interpreted as the corruption and de-politicization of 'authentic' cultural forms. My dissertation uses the example of globalized Peruvian 'folk' music to intervene in such an approach. Alternatively, I argue that through routes of travel, exile, and displacement, cultural practices are not only transformed by, but in fact transform the discursive and structural contours of place and time with which they interact. My reading of local, national, global, and diasporic Peruvian musical practice offers an alternative account of the mutually constitutive relationship between social text and spatial context through which transnational cultural (re)production takes place.