It was a Sunday morning and I was enjoying a soccer match from the English Premier league. My mother had asked me to return some tools my godfather had left at our house. I picked them up and walked to his house as he lives about two blocks away. Knowing that I was on my way he had left the door unlocked for me to come in. As I walked up the stairs to his place I heard something beautiful, it was an orchestra playing a strong melody and the music I heard was upbeat, rhythmic and had a clear repetitive articulation marked by the violins. As I walked into his apartment and placed his tools in a corner of the living room I noticed he was also watching the game but without the commentary, instead he had this beautiful music playing. After I greeted
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Payada in those days was like rap or hip-hop battles today where there was improvised singing on different topics, sort of like a competition where there was call and answer. This was done by Argentinian Gauchos which were like cowboys. These Payadas make their way to poorest suburban areas of the capital of Argentina, Buenos Aires, where African and European immigrants take it in as their own. This Payada is given the name Milonga. The name Milonga is an Angolian term that means argument. These Milongas not only become a battle with words but also with dance between the African and European immigrants. European danced with their styles such as polka while the Africans with theirs such as Candombe. It was through this mixture and influence of cultures where the tango first got its origins. Tango bands first started off playing this music only with violins, guitars, fluids and piano and lacked he key elements that formed the Tango we know today.
At the start of the 1900’s German immigrants brought with them the bandoneon which became the symbolic instrument of tango while Italian immigrants, mainly from Naples brought a more lyrical style of violin playing and their Neapolitan song which also became key factors of Tango. Tango from there transitioned from being music of the poor to more respectable music for everyone including the middle-class and
Payada in those days was like rap or hip-hop battles today where there was improvised singing on different topics, sort of like a competition where there was call and answer. This was done by Argentinian Gauchos which were like cowboys. These Payadas make their way to poorest suburban areas of the capital of Argentina, Buenos Aires, where African and European immigrants take it in as their own. This Payada is given the name Milonga. The name Milonga is an Angolian term that means argument. These Milongas not only become a battle with words but also with dance between the African and European immigrants. European danced with their styles such as polka while the Africans with theirs such as Candombe. It was through this mixture and influence of cultures where the tango first got its origins. Tango bands first started off playing this music only with violins, guitars, fluids and piano and lacked he key elements that formed the Tango we know today.
At the start of the 1900’s German immigrants brought with them the bandoneon which became the symbolic instrument of tango while Italian immigrants, mainly from Naples brought a more lyrical style of violin playing and their Neapolitan song which also became key factors of Tango. Tango from there transitioned from being music of the poor to more respectable music for everyone including the middle-class and