Quiz 2 Review

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  1. 4. Charismatic Argentinian dictator who ruled in the mid-20th c. by garnering the support of the unions, the working class and the military; his wife Eva was a powerful political figure in her own right
  2. 6. Brazilian urban dance that emerged as a Brazilianized, syncopated manner of dancing European dances like the polka, played by an ensemble called the choro
  3. 9. Colombian songwriter, considered the most important composer of vallenato
  4. 11. Argentinian song genre, in which a solo singer accompanied with guitar sings melancholic lyrics in the form of a decima. Important as a predecessor of tango
  5. 13. Musica Popular Brasileira, a late 1960s Brazilian movement during which intellectuals, artists, and musicians dealt with social and political issues
  6. 15. Argentinian dance and song genre and national symbol
  7. 16. La Guardia _____, first stage of tango history, during which the tango was instrumental only
  8. 18. Afro-Brazilian religion in which drums called atabaques are used to communicate with ancestor spirits called orixas
  9. 19. Argentinian composer who integrated Argentine popular music with classical forms, becoming a leader of the Nuevo Tango
  10. 20. Colombian bandleader who led one of the most innovative and successful orchestras of música tropical in the 1940s
  11. 22. Folk figure of the Argentinian Pampas
  12. 26. Argentinian singer and actor who became the leading singer of the Guardia Nueva and popularized the tango canción all over the world
  13. 27. Portuguese word for Mestizos
  14. 29. Brazilian popular music, influenced by jazz, that developed in the 1960s as a new way of performing samba-cançäo, popular among the white, urban middle and upper classes
  15. 31. Música _______ Term that describes the various Afro-Caribbean styles, from Colombia as well as foreign origin, played by Colombian big bands in the 1930s and 40s
  16. 33. Gaucho improvised dance contest
  17. 35. Música _______ Brazilian rural music featuring two singers in parallel thirds
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  1. 1. Brazilian singer and guitarist who was one of the most influential bossa nova figures for songs such as “Desafinado”
  2. 2. Percussion ensemble that accompanies samba; during carnival it can reach 300-500 participants
  3. 3. Brazilian singer and composer who contributed to the establishment of the urban samba, composing such classics as “Aquarela do Brasil”
  4. 5. _______ de samba: neighborhood associations where participants learn to sing and dance samba and prepare for the carnival parade
  5. 7. Influential singer, songwriter and folk music collector who revived and promoted Argentine folk music, and influenced the nueva canción movement
  6. 8. Brazilian singer-songwriter whose 1968 album Tropicalia pioneered a link between cosmopolitanism and traditionalism
  7. 10. Folk figure of the arrabales, who blended gaucho and immigrant characteristics
  8. 12. Brazilian dictator who dominated Brazilian politics in the mid-20th c
  9. 14. Period of time in the late 1970s during Argentina’s military dictatorship during which tens of thousands of people were imprisoned, tortured, killed or disappeared
  10. 17. Brazilian itinerant peasant singers, accompanied by the viola caipira, who are symbols of Brazilian rural identity
  11. 21. Also known as canción colombiana, this Mestizo genre is considered the national dance of Colombia
  12. 23. Colombian singer and actor whose fusion of vallenato with rock, pop legitimized vallenato among middle-class Colombian audiences and popularized it internationally
  13. 24. Most popular Colombian musical genre
  14. 25. Colombian working-class genre featuring button accordion, caja and guacharaca
  15. 28. La Guardia ______, second stage of tango history, during which the tango canción developed and tango was embraced by all social classes
  16. 30. Song and dance, associated particularly with carnival celebrations in Rio de Janeiro; considered Brazil’s national dance
  17. 32. Brazilian ritual fight/dance in which the music is accompanied by atabaques, pandeiros and berimbaus
  18. 34. Conjunto de ________ Ensemble of traditional cumbia, including