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* Los Visitantes

->"¡Qué saben los pitucos, lamidos y shushetas! ¡Qué saben lo que es tango, qué saben de compás! Aquí está la elegancia. ¡Qué pinta! ¡Qué silueta! ¡Qué porte! ¡Qué arrogancia! ¡Qué clase pa'bailar! Así se corta el césped mientras dibujo el ocho, para estas filigranas yo soy como un pintor. Ahora una corrida, una vuelta, una sentada... ¡Así se baila el tango, un tango de mi flor!
-->-- ''Así se baila el tango''

Tango. The sensual dance with the elegantly-dressed dancers pressed close together. The 2x4 beat. This classic music style, with lyrics that emphasize nostalgia, sadness, and lost love. Tango music can be played on solo acoustic guitar, by a guitar duo, or an ensemble, called the "orquesta típica" which includes violins, flute, piano, double bass, and several bandoneóns, possibly with a clarinet. Some songs add a vocalist. The music is given a distinctive air by the plaintive sound of the bandoneon, a squeeze box-style instrument with reeds. The music and its dance, is likely the most known cultural production of UsefulNotes/{{Argentina}} and UsefulNotes/{{Uruguay}}. There is a playful rivalry between the two countries regarding influence. For instance, the most famous score is La Cumparsita by Uruguayan Gerardo Matos Rodríguez but is usually sung with lyrics by Argentinean Pascual Contursi.

Initially, it was a music genre from poor slums, influenced by music styles brought by African slaves in the 18th century. It became a huge hit among the young people in Buenos Aires and Montevideo during the early 20th century. Dancers and orchestras made frequent trips to Europe, and there were Tango booms in Paris, New York, and Berlin. By 1915, Tango got the style it has nowadays.

The genre had a decline in the 1930s, as a result of TheGreatDepression and the restrictions imposed by the CulturePolice of the 1930 and 1943 [[MilitaryCoup governments]]. There was a brief revival during the tenure of UsefulNotes/JuanDomingoPeron, but it declined again with the renewed restrictions of the 1955 military government, as well as being overshadowed by the new RockAndRoll.

* MatingDance: The Tango dance is a fundamental aspect of it, even more than the music.
* TheNewRockAndRoll: It may be hard to believe nowadays, but Tango was not conservative music back in the 1920s. It was seen as a highly sexual dance and the lyrics talked about stuff that conservatives avoided. That's the reason the military governments imposed restrictions on it.
* NostalgiaAintLikeItUsedToBe: Lots of Tango lyrics are about nostalgia. The nostalgia of the childhood's neighborhood, of the first love, of the woman that you once loved but said "no"...

Astor Piazzolla developed a modern take on Tango music in the 1950s called Tango Nuevo. It blended trade Tango music with jazz improvisation and classical orchestral arrangements. While Tango traditionalists at first took issue with this style blending, it became popular and gave the style a renewed public interest.

Tango. The sensual dance with the elegantly-dressed dancers pressed close together. The 2x4 beat. This classic music style, with lyrics that emphasize nostalgia, sadness, and lost love. Tango music can be played on solo acoustic guitar, by a guitar duo, or an ensemble, called the "orquesta típica" which includes violins, flute, piano, double bass, and several bandoneóns, possibly with a clarinet join the ensemble. Some songs add a vocalist. The music is given a distinctive air by the plaintive sound of the bandoneon, a squeeze box-style instrument with reeds. The music and its dance, is likely the most known cultural production of UsefulNotes/{{Argentina}} and UsefulNotes/{{Uruguay}}. There is a playful rivalry between the two countries regarding influence. For instance, the most famous score is La Cumparsita by Uruguayan Gerardo Matos Rodríguez but is usually sung with lyrics by Argentinean Pascual Contursi.

Astor Piazzolla developed a modern take on Tango music in the 1980s called Tango Nuevo. It blended trade Tango music with jazz improvisation and classical orchestral arrangements. While Tango traditionalists at first took issue with this style blending, it became popular and gave the style a renewed public interest.

Tango. The sensual dance with the elegantly-dressed dancers pressed close together. The 2x4 beat. This classic music style, with lyrics that emphasize nostalgia, sadness, and lost love. The typical orchestra has several melodic instruments and is given a distinctive air by the plaintive sound of the bandoneon, a squeeze box-style instrument with reeds. The music and its dance, is likely the most known cultural production of UsefulNotes/{{Argentina}} and UsefulNotes/{{Uruguay}}. There is a playful rivalry between the two countries regarding influence. For instance, the most famous score is La Cumparsita by Uruguayan Gerardo Matos Rodríguez but is usually sung with lyrics by Argentinean Pascual Contursi.

Tango. The sensual dance with the dancers pressed close together. The 2x4 beat. This classic music style, songs with lyrics that emphasize nostalgia, sadness, and lost love. The typical orchestra has several melodic instruments and is given a distinctive air by the plaintive sound of the bandoneon, a squeeze box-style instrument with reeds. The music and its dance, is likely the most known cultural production of UsefulNotes/{{Argentina}} and UsefulNotes/{{Uruguay}}. There is a playful rivalry between the two countries regarding influence. For instance, the most famous score is La Cumparsita by Uruguayan Gerardo Matos Rodríguez but is usually sung with lyrics by Argentinean Pascual Contursi.

Tango. The 2x4. This classic music style, and its dance, is likely the most known cultural production of UsefulNotes/{{Argentina}} and UsefulNotes/{{Uruguay}}. There is a playful rivalry between the two countries regarding influence. For instance, the most famous score is La Cumparsita by Uruguayan Gerardo Matos Rodríguez but is usually sung with lyrics by Argentinean Pascual Contursi.

Initially, it was a music genre from poor slums, influenced by music styles brought by African slaves in the 18th century. It became a huge hit among the young people in Buenos Aires and Montevideo during the early 20th century. Dancers and orchestras made frequent trips to Europe, and there were Tango booms in Paris, New York, and Berlin. By 1915 Tango got the style it has nowadays.

The genre had a decline in the 1930s, as a result of TheGreatDepression and the restrictions imposed by the CulturePolice of the 1930 and 1943 military governments. There was a brief revival during the tenure of UsefulNotes/JuanDomingoPeron, but it declined again with the renewed restrictions of the 1955 military government, as well as being overshadowed by the new RockAndRoll.

Astor Piazzolla developed a modern take on Tango music called Tango Nuevo. It blended trade Tango music with jazz improvisation and classical orchestral arrangements. While Tango traditionalists at first took issue with this style blending, it became popular.

* NiceHat: Yes, many men used nice hats back in the 1920s and 1930s, regardless of circumstances (it was not a Tango thing back then), but as the genre is so associated with those time periods, men wearing nice hats is definitely part of the modern Tango imagery.

* Carlos Gardel

The genre had a decline in the 1930s, as a result of TheGreatDepression and the restrictions imposed by the CulturePolice of the 1930 and 1943 military governments. There was a brief revival during the tenure of Juan Peron, but it declined again with the renewed restrictions of the 1955 military government, as well as being overshadowed by the new RockAndRoll.

* Music/RicardoIorio

Tango. The 2x4. This classic music style, and its dance, is likely the most known cultural production of UsefulNotes/{{Argentina}} in the world, although it has many renowned artists in both Argentina and UsefulNotes/{{Uruguay}}.

Initially, it was a music genre from poor slums, influenced by music styles brought by African slaves in the 18th century. It became a huge hit among the young people in Buenos Aires during the early 20th century. Dancers and orchestras made frequent trips to Europe, and there were Tango booms in Paris, New York, and Berlin. By 1915 Tango got the style it has nowadays.

* Ricardo Iorio

The genre had a decline in the 1930s, as a result of TheGreatDepression and the restrictions imposed by the CulturePolice of the 1930 and 1943 military governments. There was a brief revival during the tenure of Juan Peron, but it declined again with the renewed restrictions of the 1955 military government, as well as being overshadowed by the new Rock&Roll.

* TheNewRockAndRoll: It may be hard to believe nowadays, but Tango was not conservative music back in the 1920. It was seen as a highly sexual dance and the lyrics talked about stuff that conservatives avoided. That's the reason the military governments imposed restrictions on it.

Initially, it was a music genre from poor slums, influenced by music styles brought by African slaves in the XVIII century. It became a huge hit among the young people in Buenos Aires during the early XX century. Dancers and orchestras made frequent trips to Europe, and there were Tango booms in Paris, New York, and Berlin. By 1915 Tango got the style it has nowadays.