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The late Robert Farris Thompson (Professor of Art History at Yale University, specialist in Africa and Afro-Atlantic world, and author of Tango: The Art History of Love) wrote extensively about the African roots of tango. Tango started black, and milonga, the dance preceding it, even more so.
A tanda is a turn of dancing in a milonga, and by association, a set of pieces of music, usually between three and five, that is played for one turn. The most common style is to play four pieces in the tango tandas, three in the milonga tandas, and three or four in the vals tandas. Most commonly the music is tango, milonga or vals.
Milonga with live music. Milonga is an event where Argentine tango is danced. The venue dedicated to milongas may also be called "milonga". People who frequently go to milongas may be called milongueros. The music played is mainly tango, vals and milonga. Most milongas are held on a regular basis (usually weekly), and they often begin with ...
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 ...
Tango is a partner dance and social dance that originated in the 1880s along the Río de la Plata, the natural border between Argentina and Uruguay. The tango was born in the impoverished port areas of these countries from a combination of Argentine Milonga , Spanish-Cuban Habanera , and Uruguayan Candombe celebrations. [ 1 ]
A cortina (curtain) is a short piece (20–60 seconds) of music that is played between tandas at a milonga (tango dance event). [1] The cortina lets the dancers know that the tanda has ended. The partners can then thank each other and return to their own tables, to find a new dance partner at the next tanda.
The term was used from the 1870s to mark a man who spent much of his time dancing tango of any style. [1] Since the early 20th century the term referred to a man immersed in the tango culture specific to Buenos Aires. A milonguero frequented dance halls, dancing to the music of tango, milonga and vals. Such a man was "raised and groomed on ...
In this way, the chacarera would have large African contributions, as would the malambo (which is seen in the lively zapateo, sharing African roots with the small Afro-Peruvian zapateos), the tango, [33] [34] the payada, the gato (a rhythm that greatly influenced the chacarera), the Pampean milonga campera and the milonga ciudadana dance. [35]