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History of Tango
Tango is a dance that has influences from African and European culture. Dances from
the candombe ceremonies of former slave peoples helped shape the modern day tango. The dance
originated in lower-class districts of Buenos Aires and Montevideo. The music derived from the
fusion of various forms of music from Europe. The words "tango" and "tambo" around the River Plate
basin were initially used to refer to musical gatherings of slaves, with written records of colonial
authorities attempting to ban such gatherings as early as 1789.
Initially, it was just one of the many dances, 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 of European immigrants.
In the early years of the 20th century, dancers and orchestras from Buenos Aires travelled to Europe,
and the first European tango craze took place in Paris, soon followed by London, Berlin, and other
capitals. Towards the end of 1913 it hit New York City in the US, and Finland. In the US, around 1911.
Rhythm such as the one-step. The term was fashionable and did not indicate that tango steps would
be used in the dance, although they might be. Tango music was sometimes played, but at a rather
fast tempo. Instructors of the period would sometimes refer to this as a "North American tango",
versus the so-called "Argentine Tango". By 1914, more authentic tango stylings were soon developed
along with some variations like Albert Newman's "Minuet" tango.
In Argentina, the onset in 1929 of the Great Depression, and restrictions introduced after the
overthrow of the Hipólito Yrigoyen government in 1930, caused tango to decline. Its fortunes were
reversed as tango became widely fashionable and a matter of national pride under the government
of Juan Perón. Tango declined again in the 1950s, as a result of economic depression and the
banning of public gatherings by the military dictatorships; male-only Tango practice—the custom at
the time—was considered "public gathering". That, indirectly, boosted the popularity of rock and
roll because, unlike Tango, it did not require such gatherings.
In 2009, the tango was added to the UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage Lists.
History of Samba
Samba is a lively, rhythmical dance of Afro-Brazilian origin in 2/4(2 by 4) time danced to Samba
music whose origins include the Maxixe.
Samba is a dance to black/African people in Brazil who brought much of their music and dance
culture into Latin America with them upon arrival into many Latin American countries. Samba music is
very similar to and has been influenced by many Angolan music genres. It has also been influenced
by many other Latin American music genres and dances. The Samba music rhythm has been danced
in Brazil since its inception in the late 16th century. There is actually a set of dances, rather than a
single dance, that define the Samba dancing scene in Brazil; however, no one dance can be claimed
with certainty as the "original" Samba style.
Another major stream of the Samba dance besides the Brazilian Samba dancing styles is Ballroom
Samba, which differs significantly.
History of Cha - Cha - Cha
In the early 1950s, Enrique Jorrín worked as a violinist and composer with
the charanga group Orquesta América. The group performed at dance halls in Havana where they
played danzón, danzonete, and danzon-mambo for dance-orientated crowds. Jorrín noticed that
many of the dancers at these gigs had difficulty with the syncopated rhythms of the danzón-mambo.
To make his music more appealing to dancers, Jorrín began composing songs where the melody was
marked strongly on the first downbeat and the rhythm was less syncopated.[4] When Orquesta
America performed these new compositions at the Silver Star Club in Havana, it was noticed that the
dancers had improvised a triple step in their footwork producing the sound "cha-cha-cha". Thus, the
new style came to be known as "cha-cha-cha" and became associated with a dance where dancers
perform a triple step.[5]
The basic footwork pattern of cha-cha-cha (two, three, cha-cha-cha) is also found in several
Afro-Cuban dances from the Santería religion. For example, one of the steps used in the dance for
the orisha Ogun uses an identical footwork pattern. These Afro-Cuban dances predate the
development of cha-cha-chá and were known by many Cubans in the 1950s, especially those of
African origin.[6] Thus, some[ have speculated that the footwork of the cha-cha-cha was inspired by
these Afro-Cuban dances.
In 1953 Orquesta America released two of Jorrin’s new compositions, "La Engañadora" and "Silver
Star", on the Cuban record label Panart. These were the first cha-cha-cha compositions ever
recorded. They immediately became hits in Havana, and other Cuban charanga orchestras quickly
imitated this new style. Soon, there was a cha-cha-cha craze in Havana’s dance halls, popularizing
both the music and the associated dance. This craze soon spread to Mexico City, and by 1955 the
music and dance of the cha-cha-cha had become popular in Latin America, the United States, and
Western Europe, following in the footsteps of the mambo, which had been a worldwide craze a few
years earlier.
History of Rumba
The term rumba may refer to a variety of unrelated music styles. Originally, the term rumba was
used as a synonym for "party" in northern Cuba, and by the late 19th century it was used to denote
the complex of secular music styles known as Cuban rumba.[1][2] Since the early 20th century the
term has been used in different countries to refer to distinct styles of music and dance, most of which
are only tangentially related to the original Cuban rumba, if at all. The vague etymological origin of
the term rumba, as well as its interchangeable use with guaracha in settings such as bufo
theatre,[3] is largely responsible for such worldwide polysemy of the term. In addition, "rumba" was
the primary marketing term for Cuban music in North America, as well as West and Central Africa,
during much of the 20th century, before the rise of mambo, pachanga and salsa.
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