Music of Argentina

Internationally, Argentina is known mostly for the tango, which developed in Buenos Aires and surrounding areas, as well as Montevideo, Uruguay. Folk, pop and classical music are also popular, and Argentine artists like Mercedes Sosa and Atahualpa Yupanqui contributed greatly to the development of nueva canción. Argentine rock has also led to a defiant rock scene in Argentina.

Tango

Main articles: Tango music

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Tango arose in the brothels, bars and port areas of Buenos Aires, where descendants of Europeans, Africans and South American natives mixed, racially and culturally. The result, tango, came about as a fusion of disparate influences including:

Related Topics:
Tango - Europe - Africa - South American native

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• Old Milonga - songs of the rural gauchos (nowdays much more related to Tango)
• Habanera - Cuban music
• Polka and mazurka - Nordic music
• Contradanse - Spanish music
• Candombe and percussion music - African music
• Flamenco - from Andalucia
• Italian folk music