Candombe
Originally, the candombe is a folk dance movement form of the Afro-Latin Americans in Montevideo and Buenos Aires .
The Candombe in Uruguay was added to the UNESCO Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity in September 2009 and is therefore part of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity .
In Montevideo the drums of the candombe can still be heard every weekend. Then the drummers and dancers meet for weekly rehearsals and play candombe in the street. Many groups can be found in the typical neighborhoods of Barrio Sur and Palermo. On the first weekend in February the traditional "llamadas" take place as part of the Carnival. For 2 days there are colorful parades on the famous street "Isla de Flores" in the Palermo district.
The beat is given by three drums: piano, chico and repique. In the candombe, the dancers represent various traditional figures, for example the medicine man ( gramillero ), the old mother ( mama vieja ) and the broomstick ( escobero ).
In Tango Argentino , the Candombe is to a certain extent the ancestor of today's dances ( Milonga , Tango and Vals ), which was danced especially by the Afro-Latin Americans in the suburbs, the "Arrabales". As the Milonga is the Candombe in 2 / 4 listed ¯ clock, but differs from it in that the drums are used as rhythmic instruments. Due to the rhythm used, the candombe is also often referred to as "milonga candombe".
See also
Web links
- What is candombe?
- Candombe in the catalog of the Ibero-American Institute in Berlin
- REPORT / 041: Uruguay - African Heart (South Wind)
- "Candombe" on www.montevideo.gub.uy (Spanish)
Individual evidence
Further reading Marcela A. País Andrade: "El candombe de la frontera argentina-uruguaya. Cuando los tambores llaman a la integración y cantan desigualidad." In: "Anthropos", Vol. 109, Issue 2 (2014), pp. 499-512