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In the postwar era, pop music in Argentina was significantly influenced by American and English musicians. During the 1950s and 1960s, the "la nueva ola" movement emerged, marking the rise of youth-oriented pop music in South America. Musicians often adapted popular English-language songs into Spanish, appealing to audiences across the country ...
Also of great value are the songs performed by Lola Kiepja, known as "the last Selk'nam", compiled by Anne Chapman in two records produced by the Musée de l'Homme in Paris, under the title Selk'nam chants of Tierra del Fuego, Argentina (in Spanish: Cantos selk’nam de Tierra del Fuego, Argentina), some of which can be heard on the Internet. [18]
The story is that Gardel was born in 1887 the son of influential Uruguayan landowner Carlos Escayola and Escayola's sister-in-law, 13-year-old Maria Lelia Oliva. The unwanted boy, named Carlos, was offered to Bertha Gardes who was passing through the area on a cabaret dance tour. Gardes took the boy back to France, where she was from.
In recent years, a few tango aficionados have undertaken a thorough research of that history [1] and so it is less mysterious today than before. It is generally thought that the dance developed in the late 19th century in working-class neighborhoods of Buenos Aires, Argentina and was practiced by Argentine dancers, musicians, and immigrant ...
Tango Argentino is a musical stage production about the history and many varieties of Argentine tango.It was created and directed by Hector Orezzoli [1] and Claudio Segovia, and premiered at the Festival d'Automne in Paris in 1983 and on Broadway in New York in 1985.
Early bandoneón, constructed ca. 1905. Even though present forms of tango developed in Argentina and Uruguay from the mid-19th century, there are records of 19th and early 20th-century tango styles in Cuba and Spain, [3] while there is a flamenco tango dance that may share a common ancestor in a minuet-style European dance. [4]
Lionel Messi and his Argentina team-mates have celebrated their 2022 World Cup victory by singing “I don’t care what the f*****g journalists say” in front of the media in Qatar.
The Chacarera is a Contradance-influenced partner dance with similarities to many Ibero-American folk dances, including the Chilean (Zama) cueca and the Peruvian Marinera (Vega 1944). Male dancers circle about their female partners, seducing them with foot stomping ( zapateo ) and handkerchief waving during the A sections and “coronating ...