Uruguayan tango

Tango is a rhythm that has its roots in the poor areas of Montevideo around 1880. Then it was extended to other areas and countries. As Borges said: "...tango is African-Montevidean [Uruguayan], tango has black curls in its roots..." He quoted Rossi, that sustained that "...tango, that argentine people call argentine tango, is the son of the Montevidean milonga and the grandson of the habanera. It was born in the San Felipe Academy [Montevideo], a Montevidean warehouse used for public dances, among gangsters and black people; then it emigrated to underworld areas of Buenos Aires and fooled around in Palermo's rooms..." This also implies that different forms of dance were originated in the neighborhoods of Montevideo, Uruguay in the last part of the 19th century and in the early 20th century that was particular from that area and different from Buenos Aires.^[1] It consists of a variety of styles that developed in different regions of Argentina and Uruguay.

The dance is often accompanied by several musical forms such as:

One of the most famous and well-known tango songs is La Cumparsita,^[2]^[3] written by Gerardo Matos Rodríguez in Montevideo in 1919. An annual week-long festival to mark the anniversary of La Cumparsita has taken place in Montevideo since 2007. The Tango Museum of Montevideo currently stands where La Cumparsita was first played, in Palacio Salvo.^[4]

Musicians

Famous Uruguayan tango musicians include:

Manuel Campoamor
Francisco Canaro
Horacio Ferrer, Uruguayan poet who contributed the lyrics to many important tango songs.
Malena Muyala
Gerardo Matos Rodríguez
Enrique Saborido
Julio Sosa, "El Varón del Tango or "The Man of Tango"
Bajofondo Tango Club, a music group made up of seven members from Uruguay and Argentina.
Famous tango singer Carlos Gardel is most closely associated with Argentina where he grew up and became famous, but in 1920 he became a legal citizen of Uruguay. He was born in Toulouse, France, so he held French citizenship automatically, and thus he had been required to register with the French military during World War I. There is no record of his registering, so historians think that he laid a false trail of his birth to avoid trouble with French authorities during an upcoming tour of France. In 1920 he obtained falsified papers saying he was born in 1887 in Tacuarembó, Uruguay; a country that was neutral during the war. Gardel never lived in Uruguay.^[5]^[6]^[7]^[8]

Uruguayan tangos

Famous Uruguayan tangos include:

Al Mundo le falta un Tornillo
La Cumparsita
Garufa
Vieja Viola
La Fulana
Con Permiso
Barrio Reo
Pato
La puñalada

Dance venues

Centro Raíces: Montevideo - Gonzalo Ramírez 2095
La Morocha Tango y Milonga: Montevideo
Plaza del Entrevero: Montevideo - Av. 18 de Julio y Río Negro
Cafe Las Musas: Montevideo - Canelones 1136 esq. Gutiérrez Ruiz
Tanguería Tabaris: Montevideo - Tristán Narvaja 1518 esq. Av. 18 de Julio
Tanguería El Farolito: Montevideo - Juncal 1413 esq. Rincón
Mercado de la Abundancia: Montevideo - Yaguarón 1290 esq. San José
Confiteria Lido: Montevideo - Av. 18 de Julio 1085
Casa de Margot: Montevideo - Constituyente 1812 esq. Gaboto
Casa de Galicia: Montevideo - Av. 18 de Julio 1471 esq. Barrios Amorín
Palacio Sudamericano: Montevideo - Yatay 1419 esq. Marcelino Sosa
Casa de Alberto: Montevideo - Uruguay 1391 esq. Ejido
Club Amigos de Rosilu: Montevideo - Paysandú 1639 esq.Minas
Hotel Casino del Parque Rodó (Salón Cristal): Montevideo

References

↑ Norese, María Rosalía: Contextualization and analysis of tango. Its origins to the emergence of the avant-garde. University of Salamanca, 2002 (restricted online copy, p. 5, at Google Books)
↑ Luis Guzman: La Cumparsita. In Encyclopedia of Contemporary Latin American and Caribbean Cultures. CRC Press 2000, ISBN 978-0-415-22971-5, p. 462 (restricted online copy, p. 462, at Google Books)
↑ Leslie Bethell: The Cambridge history of Latin America. Cambridge university Press 1995, ISBN 978-0-521-49594-3, p. 361 (restricted online copy, p. 361, at Google Books)
↑ World’s most famous tango is from Uruguay https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2017/oct/07/montevideo-uruguay-tango-la-cumparsita-buenos-aires
↑ Bocaz, Luis (March 1986). "Tango Time", UNESCO Courier, p. 11.
↑ Collier, Simon (1986). The Life, Music, and Times of Carlos Gardel. University of Pittsburgh Press. p. 5. ISBN 0822984989.
↑ Barsky, Julián; Barsky, Osvaldo (2004). Gardel: La biografía (in Spanish). Taurus. ISBN 9870400132.
↑ Ruffinelli, Jorge (2004). La sonrisa de Gardel: Biografía, mito y ficción (in Spanish). Ediciones Trilce. p. 31. ISBN 9974323568.

External links

Borges, chapter "ascendencias del tango" pag 37

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[1] Norese, María Rosalía: Contextualization and analysis of tango. Its origins to the emergence of the avant-garde. University of Salamanca, 2002 (restricted online copy, p. 5, at Google Books)

[2] Luis Guzman: La Cumparsita. In Encyclopedia of Contemporary Latin American and Caribbean Cultures. CRC Press 2000, ISBN 978-0-415-22971-5, p. 462 (restricted online copy, p. 462, at Google Books)

[3] Leslie Bethell: The Cambridge history of Latin America. Cambridge university Press 1995, ISBN 978-0-521-49594-3, p. 361 (restricted online copy, p. 361, at Google Books)

[4] World’s most famous tango is from Uruguay https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2017/oct/07/montevideo-uruguay-tango-la-cumparsita-buenos-aires

[UNESCO1986-5] Bocaz, Luis (March 1986). "Tango Time", UNESCO Courier, p. 11.

[Collier5-6] Collier, Simon (1986). The Life, Music, and Times of Carlos Gardel. University of Pittsburgh Press. p. 5. ISBN 0822984989.

[Barsky-7] Barsky, Julián; Barsky, Osvaldo (2004). Gardel: La biografía (in Spanish). Taurus. ISBN 9870400132.

[8] Ruffinelli, Jorge (2004). La sonrisa de Gardel: Biografía, mito y ficción (in Spanish). Ediciones Trilce. p. 31. ISBN 9974323568.