Gerardo Hernan Matos Rodriguez's La Cumparsita (1916) were among theīandoneon player Osvaldo Fresedo and violin player Julio de Caro were among Tango orchestras: the rhythm set by syncopated piano figures, the melodies Roberto Firpo is credited as having set the standard in 1913 for all future Itself as a major genre among young Argentinians.
By that time, tango had already established One of the earliest hits of tango was pianist Enrique Saborido's The Viennese waltz and the Polka had been the first dances to employ the closeĬontact between a male and a female. Tango was embraced enthusiastically in Europe and landed in the USA in the 1910s. When lyrics were added, they drew from "lunfardo", the lingo of the underworld (the term originally meant "thief"). Pessimistic mood, permeated by a fatalistic sense of an unavoidableĭestiny, a music of sorrow enhanced by the melancholy sound of the bandoneon. The choreography originally devised in the brothels to mimick the obscene and violent relationship between the prostitute, her pimp and a male rivalĮventually turned into a dance and a style of music of a Tan-go was the name given to the drums of the African slaves,Īnd the music was influenced by both the Cuban habanera and the local milonga. "Boca" of Buenos Aires (Argentina) invented a new rhythm, the tango. Tango TM, ®, Copyright © 2003 Piero Scaruffi All rights reserved.ĭuring the "belle epoque" (1890s), the working class of the Shares the same characters that made it a universal koine'. The integration of European music and African music), Latin American genres While not as popular as the popular music of the USA (also born out of Latin America has produced a variety of genres born at the crossroads ofĮuropean folk music, African music and native traditions. ( These are excerpts from my book "A History of Popular Music") A brief summary of Latin-American Popular musicĮxcerpted from The History of Popular Music
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