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- Folk music—known as música folklórica or folklore in Spanish, from the English "folklore"—is a music genre that includes both traditional folk music and contemporary folk music, which emerged from the genre's 20th-century revival. Argentine folk music comes in many forms and has Indigenous, European, and African influences.
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Characteristic folk music of the Patagonia region of Angertina is loncomeo, chorrillero, kaani, and cordillerana. These music genres are performed by bands of all sizes (from soloists to large bands), with the presence of traditional Indian percussion instrument of kultrún.
Argentina has a patchwork of traditional dances covering its large territory. Among the many different types of Argentine folk music, the most well known in Buenos Aires are probably chacarera, chamame and zamba —not to be confused with the Brazilian samba.
It emerged as a fusion of various styles of music from across the globe including European styles such as flamenco, minuet, polka, mazurka, and contradanza; Argentine and Uruguayan folk music, including candombe, payada and milonga (considered a precursor to tango); and sub-Saharan African influences.
In Argentina, the music of folkloric projection began to acquire popularity in the 1930s and 1940s, coinciding with a large wave of internal migration from the countryside to the city and from the provinces to Buenos Aires, to establish itself in the 1950s, with the "folklore boom", as the main genre of national popular music, together with tango.
Folkloric dances and music continue to be very much a part of Argentine tradition, for example peñas, which thrive in towns across the country. Here are some examples of the biggest folkloric music groups in Argentina: Los Chalchaleros, Los Fronterizos, Atahualpa Yupanqui, Eduardo Falú and Gustavo “Cuchi” Leguizamón.
Jul 24, 2022 · Argentine Folk Music map . Las características e interpretes según región: Centro Noroeste, Litoral, Sureña o Bonaerense, Cuyana y Patagónica.
Music, Cultural Identity. Argentina music history with their different musical genres. The Argentine tango and folk music.
