1.TANGO
Tango was born in the late nineteenth century derived from the mixing of musical forms of Italian and Spanish immigrants, the Creole descendants of Spaniards who inhabited the plains and a kind of drumming called blacks "Candombe". There is evidence of influence of the "Habanera" Cuba and the "Tango Andaluz." Tango was born as a folk expression of the poor, coming from all those sources, who mingled on the outskirts of Buenos Aires growing.
Initially it was purely dance. The people were instructed to improvise lyrics spicy and good mood for the best-known songs, but they were, so to speak, official letters, made specifically for the music or definitely related to them.
In public, men danced with men. In those days it was considered obscene dance between men and women embraced, and this is one aspect of tango that kept him confined to brothels where men used the steps that created and practiced among themselves during their leisure time more familiar. Later, the tango became a dance typically conducted in brothels, especially after the industrialization transformed the suburban areas in factories moving misery and brothels in the city center. At that stage had lyrics with themes focused on these environments. Letters are frankly obscene and violent.
By 1910 the Tango was taken to Paris. There are several versions of how this happened. Parisian society of the time when the arts were living modernism yearned for novelty and exoticism. The tango became a fever in Paris and, as Paris was the cultural flagship of the entire civilized world, so the tango spread to the rest of the world. The portions moralistic society condemned the tango, as had been raised against the waltz before they see it as a dance immoral. The very high society looked down on the Argentina tango, which only became accepted in the halls of high class by indirect influence of Paris.
In 1917 began to appear formal variations of the Tango. One of them, influenced by the French romance, gave rise to the so-called tango-song. Tangos made a letter to music. The letter is an essential part of the tango and therefore, there are the singers of tango. The tango is not made exclusively for dancing. It is considered the first - or at least more pronounced in the transition - Tango-song "Mi Noche Triste" with a letter Pascoal Contursi composed in 1917 on an older song called "Lita."
Luxury in the cabarets of the 1920s, the tango has undergone important changes. The performers were no longer the small groups who worked in brothels, but professional musicians who have brought the use of piano and more technical and melodic quality.
Carlos Gardel was already a huge success in 1928. Success that lasted until 1935, when a victim of a plane crash when he was in full swing. Gardel sang the tango in Paris, New York and many other world capitals, always attracting crowds, especially when presented in Latin America. There were crowds worthy of Elvis Presley and the Beatles. He was also responsible for popularizing the tango movies starring tango music produced in Hollywood.
The decade of 1940 is considered one of the happiest and most productive of the tango. Professionals who had begun in the orchestras of luxury cabarets of the 1920s were the height of its potential. This time the letters of the tango became more lyrical and sentimental. The old theme of brothels and cabarets, violence and profanity, was a mere reminiscence. The formula is ultra-romantic to characterize the letters: rain, drizzle, the sky, the great sadness of lost love. Many songwriters were poets of renown and with solid cultural.
The 1950 features the revolutionary performance of Astor Piazzolla. Piazzolla breaks with the traditional bringing complementary resources classic tango influences of Bach and Stravinsky on one hand, and on the other side of Cool Jazz. At that time the tango is to be executed with a high degree of professional musicianship, but in the popular universe to see the 1950 invasion of rock'roll American and ballroom dancing are to be implemented only in groups of lovers.
In the 1960s, a law to protect the national music Argentina is already revoked, and the tango that was heard daily on radio is being replaced by other foreign rhythms, while the labels have not been more interested in the tango.
The youth not just for practicing the tango in leisure and everyday life is to ridicule it as something out of fashion. With the lack of commercial labels, few large tangos were composed. It has been more common, the covers of old hits and modernized reinterpretation of the biggest hits of the early days. Today the critical Argentina detects a return of the tango, more and more common in plays and films.
In 1983 she performed in Paris on an innovation to the shows planned for the exterior: the professional couples that made up the cast came from the milonga porteña. Was broken image of acrobatic dancer.
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COUNTRY
A country dance was born along with country music in cities like Nashville and Santa Fe in the southern United States in the early nineteenth century, when immigrants from England who could not find work in the northeastern colonies left for the west in search of land and gold. They traveled on horseback, in groups, setting up camp on the charts the paths long and tiresome. In these charts, all gathered around bonfires, singing and dancing to the sound of guitars, banjos, mandolins and fiddles. The pace was slower than that of the country you hear on the radio today and had a strong influence of rhythm as Southern blues and folk. People invented steps to the music, and decorated small choreographies. With the colonization of the western and southern United States, the country music and dance grew and solidified its roots in pubs in small towns, the famous saloons in Western movies. There are basically three types of dance:
Singles Dance, Line Dance or Honky Tonk - dance without par in the queue, making dances, where everyone can put your style, different spins, since she does not touch on the basic structure of the choreography.
Two-Step - step two, choreographed, danced in circles or free, as in a gang.
Partner Dance - dance pair, the most similar to our dance hall, where there is no choreography and the sequence of steps is defined by the command of the gentleman.
HIP HOP
In the 60's, proliferated to a great discussion on human rights and, in this order of events, the marginalized of society in New York were combined to enforce its proposals in the disposal of their concerns. This is how great black leaders like Martin Luther King and Malcolm X, and groups that fought for human rights as the Black Panther Party (Black Panthers). Meanwhile in Jamaica came the 'Sound Systems', which were placed in the streets of the Jamaican ghetto to cheer dances. These balls served as background for the discourse of 'Toasters', authentic MC's (Masters of Ceremony) who said, with a kind of spoken song, issues such as violence in the slums of Kingston and the political situation in Jamaica, while talking, you course, issues such as sex and drugs. In the late 60's, many young Jamaicans were forced to emigrate to the United States, due to an economic and social crisis that hit the island. And one in particular, the Jamaican DJ Kool Herc introduced the balls on the outskirts of New York tradition of the 'Sound Systems' and the spoken song. Inspired by DJs (Disc Jockeys) Americans, including the DJ Grand Master Flash, inventor of the scratch, the invention sophisticated corner spoken. Soon, the MC's (Masters of Ceremony) and the rappers, who built speeches indignant, angry, full of references to racial and social conflicts. They were heirs to the voices of the radical Black Panther Party (Black Panthers), that joining the bases sound effects and dancing as the scratch created the RAP (which stands for Rhythm And Poetry, and Rhythm and Poetry, in Portuguese) that consist of a base Music dancing together of rhymes spoken that followed the pace. The Break dance was invented by a Puerto Rican, through which they expressed their dissatisfaction with politics and the Vietnam War. He was inspired, among other things, martial arts moves, such as Kung Fu. The Break has spread along with the gangs of New York, that by the end of the 60s, in response to social oppression with brutal violence. It was common for the armed confrontation. Traditionally American ethnic groups did not mix, hence we had gangs of Hispanic and black gangs. Each had its code group, called TAG (signature of graffiti), and demarcate the territories with graphite on the walls of the neighborhoods of New York. Yet in moments of relaxation, these gangs danced the Break.
The Movement Hip Hop is a social movement that was created by teams Bailes U.S., circa 1968, in order to appease the quarrels of the young black and Hispanic gangs grouped. Its name comes from the words Hip (hip, in English) and Hop (jump, in English). Therefore, the term Hip Hop (jump swinging the hip) was referring to the Break, the most popular dance of the season. Teams organized dances and the Block in the streets, in gyms and schools, encouraging young people to the Break dancing instead of squabbling among themselves. Teams also encouraged the Graffiti as an art form and not just as a way of marking territory. The most famous of these teams was the Universal Zulu Nation, which had as leader the DJ Afrika Bambaataa, recognized as the official founder of Hip-Hop.
Afrika Bambaataa was born and raised in the Bronx and as a young man was part of a gang called the Black Spades (Black Spades in Portuguese), but saw that the fights between the gangs do not lead anywhere. Many of the original members of the Zulu Nation were also on the Black Spades, which was one of the largest and most feared gangs of new york. Bambaataa was used in many existing recordings of different types of music to create Raps. Using sounds, ranging from James Brown (Master of Soul Music) to the electronic sound of the song "Trans-Europe Express" (the band Kraftwerk Europe), and mixing the spoken song brought the Jamaican DJ Kool Herc, Bambaataa created music "Planet Rock", which is now a classic. Bambaataa was also one of the leaders of liberation movements James Brown, created when the master of Soul Music was arrested and, years later, was the first 'Hip-Hopper' to work with James Brown recording "Peace, Love & Unity."
In addition, the Zulu Nation organized lectures called 'Infinity Lessons "(Infinite classes, good in Portuguese), which were lessons on knowledge, disease prevention, mathematics, science, economics, among other things, that served to change the thoughts of gangs. According to his own leader, Afrika Bambaataa, Zulu Nation to support the knowledge, wisdom, understanding, freedom, justice, equality, peace, unity, love, fun, work, faith and the wonders God. This true 'nation' also traveled around the world to preach the good word of Hip-Hop, doing many shows and fundraising campaigns for Anti-Apartheid (Anti-Racist) and assembled up to 10,000 members around the world. According to the Zulu Nation, in the relaxed space of the street was, and still is, possible to express opinions and have fun. The people outside, in contact with their peers (the group), they could feel and experience the rare opportunity of free expression through art, without repression.
ROCK
Origins of rock
This genre of great success came in the United States in the 50s (1950) .. Innovative and unlike anything that had happened in music, rock united a fast pace with a touch of black music in the South and the country. One of the most important was the follow-rock electric guitar, drums and bass. With simple lyrics and a danceable rhythm, fell quickly in popular taste. It first appeared on a radio program in the state of Ohio (USA), in 1951.
A rock in the 1950s: first steps .
It is the initial phase of this style, winning the sympathy of young people who identified with the rebellious style of the singers and bands. Surge in the U.S. and spreading around the world in no time. In 1954, Bill Haley launches hit Shake, Rattle and Roll. The following year, appears in the music scene the king of rock Elvis Presley. Uniting different rhythms and country music and rhythm & blues.
The rocker's most successful so far, Elvis Presley would throw the disc in 1956, Heartbreaker Hotel, achieving extraordinary sales. In this decade, other rockers made success as, for example, Chuck Berry and Little Richard. The rock in the '60s: rebellion and transgression
This phase marks the entry into the world of rock's most successful band of all time: The Beatles. The four young men from Liverpool pop charts in Europe and the United States in 1962 with the song Love me do. The Beatles win the world and successfully increased each year this decade. The 1960s became known as Anos Rebeldes, thanks to the great peace movements and demonstrations against the Vietnam War. The rock gets a character of political contestation in the lyrics of Bob Dylan. Another British group begins to make great success: The Rolling Stones. At the end of the decade, in 1969, the Woodstock festival becomes the symbol of this period. Under the slogan "peace and love" half a million people attend the concert that was attended by Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin. Rock bands that have success this season: The Mamas & The Papas, Animals, The Who, Jefferson Airplane, Pink Floyd, The Beatles, Rolling Stones, The Doors.
The rock in the '70s: disco, pop rock and punk rock
This time the rock gets a face more popular with the mass of music and the emergence of the video clip. That's also a beat stronger and heavier on the rock scene. It is time for the heavy metal bands such as Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath and Deep Purple. Other hand, there is a dance beat that takes care of the dance floors around the world. The dance music emerges with the successes of Frank Zappa, Creedence Clearwater, Captain Beefheart, Neil Young, Elton John, Brian Ferry and David Bowie. Rock bands with big show appear in this season: Genesis Pink Floyd, Queen and Yes
80 years: a bit of everything in rock
The 1980s was marked by the coexistence of various rock. The new wave is successful in dancing rhythm of the following bands: Talking Heads, The Clash, The Smith, The Police. Surge in New York a TV station dedicated to music and it drives even more rock. This station is MTV, dedicated to showcasing music videos for bands and singers. Begins to make a successful Irish rock band U2 with call letters of protest and a strong political character. Following a pop and dance style, show Michael Jackson and Madonna.
The '90s: decade of mergers and trials
This decade was marked by mergers of different rates and success in the world of rap and reggae. Bands like Red Hot Chili Peppers and Faith No More merge heavy metal and funk, earning the taste of rock and a big hit. Comes the grunge movement in Seattle, California. The group Nirvana, led by Kurt Cobain, is the largest representative of this new style. REM, Soundgarden, Pearl Jam and Alice In Chains are also successful in the grunge scene of the period. The British rock band has new, for example, Oasis, Green Day and Supergrass.
The Rock in Brazil
The first success in the Brazilian rock scene appeared in the voice of a singer. Celly Campello broke the radio hits with the bath Moon and Stupid Cupid, in the early 1960s. In the middle of this decade, there is the Young Guard with singers such as Roberto Carlos, Erasmo Carlos and Wanderléa. With romantic lyrics and pace, get a hit among young people. In the 1970s, appears Raul Seixas and group Dry and Wet. In the next decade, with more urban themes and talking about everyday life, there are bands like: Outrage a Rigor, Legião Urbana, Titãs, Barão Vermelho, Kid Abelha, Architects Hawaii, Blitz and Os Paralamas do Sucesso. In the 1990s, are successful in setting the national rock: Raimundos, Charlie Brown Jr., Jota Quest, Pato Fu, Skank and others.
Who knew that one day people would see the major Brazilian cities, used to worship foreign artists crazed because of a pace that until recently suffered great prejudice ..... Well, that's what's going on with the dance, this mixture "highly flammable" African rhythms and European that arrived in Brazil at the beginning of the century.
Forró
The name "forró" is already controversial because some say it comes from "for all" (in English "for all") and stated that the free access to the dances promoted by the British who built railroads in Pernambuco in the early; However, some argue the thesis that the word forró comes from the African "Forrobodó" which means party, mess. And if the word itself has this dual version of its meaning, imagine the rhythms that make up the dance! There are so many and so diverse, that leave no doubt about where it comes from a very musical of forró. After all, the music that has influences from its rhythms as diverse as the ballad, the Quixote, the xaxado, coconut, and vanerão juninas, could only lead to a dance that leaves no one stopped.
The pen, for example, was danced in a circle and was born in northeastern Brazil in the nineteenth century.
Since the Quixote, has its origins in the late nineteenth century and is a pace of European origin that appeared in the aristocratic salons of the Regency era. And so are you.
But if they are many and diverse musical influences that gave rise to forró and there is controversy as to the appearance of the word itself, there is one point on which all agree: if it was Luiz Gonzaga, the dance would not have fallen in popular taste and not would be the success it is today. The "Old Moon", as it was known, was the one who took the dance of northeastern ghettos and presented it to the public from other regions of the country. This happened in 1941 when he entered and won a National Radio was looking for new talent. But before playing on the Old Moon stage of a bitter little money and prestige, animating the night in brothels and bars of Rio de Janeiro.
However, after overcoming the bias of the artistic director of radio, which forbade even use the costumes of the rustic and northeast which would then be his trademark, Luiz Gonzaga, was slowly conquering the whole country with his forró. For these and other, Luiz Gonzaga became known nationally as the "King of Baião" consecrating north and south of the country and even abroad, the rate that currently heats up the nights of 9 out of 10 capitals of Brazil. Currently, the dance is back at the height of success and is gaining support among young people all around the country.
This demand for a pace that until recently, was viewed with prejudice, is again changing the "face" of forró. Text taken from the site http://www.projetoequilibrio.com.br/HIP HOPIn the 60's, proliferated to a great discussion on human rights and, in this order of events, the marginalized of society in New York were combined to enforce its proposals in the disposal of their concerns. This is how great black leaders like Martin Luther King and Malcolm X, and groups that fought for human rights as the Black Panther Party (Black Panthers). Meanwhile in Jamaica came the 'Sound Systems', which were placed in the streets of the Jamaican ghetto to cheer dances. These balls served as background for the discourse of 'Toasters', authentic MC's (Masters of Ceremony) who said, with a kind of spoken song, issues such as violence in the slums of Kingston and the political situation in Jamaica, while talking, you course, issues such as sex and drugs. In the late 60's, many young Jamaicans were forced to emigrate to the United States, due to an economic and social crisis that hit the island. And one in particular, the Jamaican DJ Kool Herc introduced the balls on the outskirts of New York tradition of the 'Sound Systems' and the spoken song. Inspired by DJs (Disc Jockeys) Americans, including the DJ Grand Master Flash, inventor of the scratch, the invention sophisticated corner spoken. Soon, the MC's (Masters of Ceremony) and the rappers, who built speeches indignant, angry, full of references to racial and social conflicts. They were heirs to the voices of the radical Black Panther Party (Black Panthers), that joining the bases sound effects and dancing as the scratch created the RAP (which stands for Rhythm And Poetry, and Rhythm and Poetry, in Portuguese) that consist of a base Music dancing together of rhymes spoken that followed the pace. The Break dance was invented by a Puerto Rican, through which they expressed their dissatisfaction with politics and the Vietnam War. He was inspired, among other things, martial arts moves, such as Kung Fu. The Break has spread along with the gangs of New York, that by the end of the 60s, in response to social oppression with brutal violence. It was common for the armed confrontation. Traditionally American ethnic groups did not mix, hence we had gangs of Hispanic and black gangs. Each had its code group, called TAG (signature of graffiti), and demarcate the territories with graphite on the walls of the neighborhoods of New York. Yet in moments of relaxation, these gangs danced the Break. The Movement Hip Hop is a social movement that was created by teams Bailes U.S., circa 1968, in order to appease the quarrels of the young black and Hispanic gangs grouped. Its name comes from the words Hip (hip, in English) and Hop (jump, in English). Therefore, the term Hip Hop (jump swinging the hip) was referring to the Break, the most popular dance of the season. Teams organized dances and the Block in the streets, in gyms and schools, encouraging young people to the Break dancing instead of squabbling among themselves. Teams also encouraged the Graffiti as an art form and not just as a way of marking territory. The most famous of these teams was the Universal Zulu Nation, which had as leader the DJ Afrika Bambaataa, recognized as the official founder of Hip-Hop. Afrika Bambaataa was born and raised in the Bronx and as a young man was part of a gang called the Black Spades (Black Spades in Portuguese), but saw that the fights between the gangs do not lead anywhere. Many of the original members of the Zulu Nation were also on the Black Spades, which was one of the largest and most feared gangs of new york. Bambaataa was used in many existing recordings of different types of music to create Raps. Using sounds, ranging from James Brown (Master of Soul Music) to the electronic sound of the song "Trans-Europe Express" (the band Kraftwerk Europe), and mixing the spoken song brought the Jamaican DJ Kool Herc, Bambaataa created music "Planet Rock", which is now a classic. Bambaataa was also one of the leaders of liberation movements James Brown, created when the master of Soul Music was arrested and, years later, was the first 'Hip-Hopper' to work with James Brown recording "Peace, Love & Unity."In addition, the Zulu Nation organized lectures called 'Infinity Lessons "(Infinite classes, good in Portuguese), which were lessons on knowledge, disease prevention, mathematics, science, economics, among other things, that served to change the thoughts of gangs. According to his own leader, Afrika Bambaataa, Zulu Nation to support the knowledge, wisdom, understanding, freedom, justice, equality, peace, unity, love, fun, work, faith and the wonders God. This true 'nation' also traveled around the world to preach the good word of Hip-Hop, doing many shows and fundraising campaigns for Anti-Apartheid (Anti-Racist) and assembled up to 10,000 members around the world. According to the Zulu Nation, in the relaxed space of the street was, and still is, possible to express opinions and have fun. The people outside, in contact with their peers (the group), they could feel and experience the rare opportunity of free expression through art, without repression .
