The main objective of this thesis was to find out whether or not the Peruvian dialect is a part of the Peruvian national identity, using music as a medium. To accomplish this objective, interviews were conducted in Trujillo, Peru. The purpose of these interviews was primarily to create a corpus or body of Peruvian music that represents the national identity of those interviewed, and secondarily to determine if Peruvians are conscious of their own dialect. Once the names of songs representing Peruvian nation identity were collected, the degree to which they reflect the phonetic, morphological, syntactical, and lexical features of the Peruvian dialect(s) was analyzed. This linguistic analysis was then used to determine to what extent the Peruvian dialect forms a part of their national identity; that is, if the corpus reflects in a high degree the Peruvian dialect, then this dialect would appear to be one of the values that makes up their national identity, and vice versa: if the corpus does not reflect the Peruvian dialect to a great extent, then their dialect would appear not to be a strong part of their national identity. In addition to the analysis of linguistic elements in the songs, extra-linguistic elements such as cultural references that do not form a part of the Peruvian lexicon, themes, musical genres, and, to a limited degree, instrumentation and melody were observed. These extra-linguistic features were then compared with the linguistic features in the songs, to determine which type of element was more common. The responses of the Peruvians interviewed were also analyzed to find out if they are conscious of their own dialect and whether or not it forms a part of their national identity, that is, the interviews were analyzed from a meta-linguistic angle. The linguistic, extra-linguistic, and meta-linguistic elements were also studied using the sociolinguistic factors of gender, age, and level of education.