Argentinian Tango in Correlation to Dance Tango is the Argentinian derived musical genre that has come to have great popularity all over the world. The musical genre first gained popularity and became known throughout the suburbs of Buenos Aires at the ending of the 19th century. Although Argentinian tango has several identifiable components that make up the genre, one of the characteristics tango is most well known for is the dances performed along with the music. Tango is generally known as a romantic, intimate dance while performed between partners, but there are many variations of tango dance, everything from arms length dances, to the stereotypical face-to-face intimate dance most people identify tango as. Another very notable characteristic that comes along with Argentinian tango music is the instrument known as a bandoneon.
In doing this they created a synergy with the live entertainment industry that got consumers to buy sheet music as well as tickets to live entertainment acts. This tradition of selling a song and not necessarily the artist is now known as the Tin Pan Alley tradition. The musicians that put Tin Pan Alley on the map are names that most of us will recognize as legends of their time. Some of the names inducted into The Songwriters hall of fame include: Duke Ellington and Scott Joplin recognized for their contributions to ragtime, jazz, swing, big band and the 12-bar progression that has
PART I HISTORY AND OVERVIEW OF AN ARGENTINE MUSICAL CULTURE The origins of folk music in Argentina are a result of three main cultural influences – Inca, Spanish and African. Combined in various ways, these cultures provided a varied folk music to Latin America in the mid-nineteenth century. These native sounds were the building blocks of many composers in Argentina of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in their quest to establish a nationalist, musical language. The Incas inhabited the territory now known as Argentina well before the Spanish arrived in the early 1500s. Though no evidence through musical notation has survived, the Incas were believed to be a strong musical civilization.
The articles “The Buena Vista Social Club” by Tanya Katerí Hernandez and “Globalisation and the Tango” by Chris Goertzen and María Susana Azzi have both discussed the issue of the globalisation of Latin American music and how it is portrayed in foreign countries. Cuban son music emerged in the country during the 1910s and by 1930 had gained worldwide success. This style of music, a blend of Spanish canción, Spanish guitar and African rhythms and played in the clave rhythm, provided a key symbol of Afro-Cuban culture and identity while also heavily influencing other musicians and music genres. It provided Havana’s Afro-Cuban lower classes with a source of income and the chance to enter a previously European dominated market. Son was exported to the rest of the world during the 1930s and 1940s and became particularly popular in the United States, also providing the grounds for the creation of salsa music in the 1970s.
Bollywood films are usually musicals and incorporate a lot of exciting music and dance. The success of these films is normally determined by how well the musical numbers are done. In many cases, the music for a film will be released prior to the film to increase attention. The Bollywood films are often a mixture of romance, action, and comedy. They strive to be very
Gradually, the celebrations evolved into the unique practices of masquerades, parades, dances and drums. In the various states of Brazil there are many ways and styles of celebrating Carnival. The most famous is Rio de Janeiro style. Rio de Janeiro is considered the worlds most famous and is the biggest carnival in the world. Other styles in Brazil include, São Paulo style, Bahia style, Pernambuco style, and Minas Gerais style.
Not many people know that house music originated in Chicago basements during the mid 1970s and it is now at the forefront of pop culture. House music is a genre of electronic dance music. A genre is a type, classification, or style of music. What I love most about house music is its decadent beat, a regularly requiring pulse, and relentless sound, designed to take dancers to a new high. It’s dynamics, or volume, are extremely appealing to me.
The primary resources of Peru include petroleum, found on the northwestern coast and in the Amazon Basin; cooper in northwestern Peru; and substantial deposit of silver, iron, ore, gold, lead, and zinc throughout the cordilleras. Also important are the forest, specially the stands of cedars, oak, and mahogany. About 35 percent of Peru's working population is engaged in farming. Most of the coastal area is devoted to the raising of export crops; on the Montaña and the sierra are mainly grown crops for local consumption. Many farms in Peru are very small and are used to produce subsistence crops; the country also has large cooperative farms.
This led to severe problems among the population as poverty rose and economic aid was relinquished causing excessive inflation. Brazil once struggled under its own bureaucratic weight and currently has overcome many of its struggles to become a flourishing country. Brazil is the world’s fifth-largest country in terms of land mass and population, and its almost 200 million people are heavily concentrated on the Atlantic coast. Brazil is federal republic with 26 states, and one federal district (Brasilia). According to "Brazil Government Profile 2012,” Brazil Constitution was established on October 5, 1988, and grants broad powers to the federal government, made up of executive, legislative, and judicial branches.
Name: Akila Mc Eachnie Course Code: CARN 1701 Course Name: Carnival and Society Lecturer: Dr. Ann Lee and Team Date: 17th November, 2011 Topic: Carnival and Race: The Authorship of Calypso The Authorship of Calypso Trinidad Carnival is proclaimed to be the “greatest show on earth” by many, locally and abroad. This show emerged as a result of the merging of cultural practices, symbols and traditions of the different races that occupied the land from colonization to pre-emancipation to post emancipation. Race is a controversial term with regards to its definition. Race in the context of this essay will be considered from a “colonial” viewpoint. Therefore race here is “assumed to be biological, fixed, or immutable(primordial) so that any attempt to treat it as a social construction is resisted vigorously by those who have a great deal of emotion invested in notions of racial purity and associated concepts of cultural superiority” (Allahar, 1996).