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Payada in a pulpería by Carlos Morel Juan Arroyo, Argentine payador, c. 1870 Payador playing in his rancho, c. 1890s. The payada is a folk music tradition native to Argentina, Uruguay, southern Brazil, and south Paraguay as part of the Gaucho culture and Gaucho literature. In Chile it is called paya and performed by huasos.
Cover to Cantares Criollos, a book that compiles songs by Gabino Ezeiza, published in 1886. There are those who consider that Ezeiza was the one who introduced the milonga rhythm to payada, [14] and its popularity caused other payadores to spread it to other areas of Argentina, Uruguay, and Brazil (on all in the south of this country).
This is a list of folk music traditions, with styles, dances, instruments and other related topics.The term folk music can not be easily defined in a precise manner; it is used with widely varying definitions depending on the author, intended audience and context within a work.
The most distinctive music of Uruguay is to be found in the tango and candombe; both genres have been recognized by UNESCO as an Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. . Uruguayan music includes a number of local musical forms such as murga, a form of musical theatre, and milonga, a folk guitar and song form deriving from Spanish and italian traditions and related to similar forms found in ...
The candombe is a folk dance performed at Carnival, especially Uruguayan Carnival, mainly by Uruguayans of African ancestry. [26] The guitar is the preferred musical instrument, and in a popular traditional contest called the payada, two singers, each with a guitar, take turns improvising verses to the same tune. [26]
Category: Dance in Uruguay. ... National Ballet of Uruguay This page was last edited on 20 December 2021, at 21:02 (UTC). Text is available under the ...
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In Argentina, the word Tango seems to have first been used in the 1890s. In 1902, the Teatro Opera started to include tango in their balls. [11] Initially tango was just one of the many dances practiced locally, but it soon became popular throughout society, as theatres and street barrel organs spread it from the suburbs to the working-class slums, which were packed with hundreds of thousands ...