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- 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
- 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
- 9. Colombian songwriter, considered the most important composer of vallenato
- 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
- 13. Musica Popular Brasileira, a late 1960s Brazilian movement during which intellectuals, artists, and musicians dealt with social and political issues
- 15. Argentinian dance and song genre and national symbol
- 16. La Guardia _____, first stage of tango history, during which the tango was instrumental only
- 18. Afro-Brazilian religion in which drums called atabaques are used to communicate with ancestor spirits called orixas
- 19. Argentinian composer who integrated Argentine popular music with classical forms, becoming a leader of the Nuevo Tango
- 20. Colombian bandleader who led one of the most innovative and successful orchestras of música tropical in the 1940s
- 22. Folk figure of the Argentinian Pampas
- 26. Argentinian singer and actor who became the leading singer of the Guardia Nueva and popularized the tango canción all over the world
- 27. Portuguese word for Mestizos
- 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
- 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
- 33. Gaucho improvised dance contest
- 35. Música _______ Brazilian rural music featuring two singers in parallel thirds
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- 1. Brazilian singer and guitarist who was one of the most influential bossa nova figures for songs such as “Desafinado”
- 2. Percussion ensemble that accompanies samba; during carnival it can reach 300-500 participants
- 3. Brazilian singer and composer who contributed to the establishment of the urban samba, composing such classics as “Aquarela do Brasil”
- 5. _______ de samba: neighborhood associations where participants learn to sing and dance samba and prepare for the carnival parade
- 7. Influential singer, songwriter and folk music collector who revived and promoted Argentine folk music, and influenced the nueva canción movement
- 8. Brazilian singer-songwriter whose 1968 album Tropicalia pioneered a link between cosmopolitanism and traditionalism
- 10. Folk figure of the arrabales, who blended gaucho and immigrant characteristics
- 12. Brazilian dictator who dominated Brazilian politics in the mid-20th c
- 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
- 17. Brazilian itinerant peasant singers, accompanied by the viola caipira, who are symbols of Brazilian rural identity
- 21. Also known as canción colombiana, this Mestizo genre is considered the national dance of Colombia
- 23. Colombian singer and actor whose fusion of vallenato with rock, pop legitimized vallenato among middle-class Colombian audiences and popularized it internationally
- 24. Most popular Colombian musical genre
- 25. Colombian working-class genre featuring button accordion, caja and guacharaca
- 28. La Guardia ______, second stage of tango history, during which the tango canción developed and tango was embraced by all social classes
- 30. Song and dance, associated particularly with carnival celebrations in Rio de Janeiro; considered Brazil’s national dance
- 32. Brazilian ritual fight/dance in which the music is accompanied by atabaques, pandeiros and berimbaus
- 34. Conjunto de ________ Ensemble of traditional cumbia, including