Cuba may be known now for upbeat salsa, but long before that genre even emerged ...
HAVANA - Cuba may be known now for upbeat salsa, but long before that genre even emerged its Afro beats fed into the melancholic Argentine tango which was widely popular on the Caribbean’s largest island.
Two years ago, they launched an annual Havana tango marathon and festival, in addition to staging regular classes and milongas, or tango dance events. What is now known as Argentine Tango - as a music with lyrics and partnered dance - emerged later that century in the working class port areas between Argentina and Uruguay as a fusion of genres carried there by sailors and immigrants.
“All Argentine tango artists came to sing in Havana,” said Contreras, who met several including Osvaldo Pugliese and Astor Piazzolla. “In fact when Gardel died in a plane crash, he was en route to Havana.” Tango suffered a decline worldwide in the 1960s, staging a comeback as more of a niche interest in the 1980s.
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