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  • "candombe" -- has helped give momentum to a burgeoning black cultural movement.

    Reuters: Top News 2009

  • "candombe" -- has helped give momentum to a burgeoning black cultural movement.

    Reuters: Top News 2009

  • "candombe" (a drum-based musical genre with African roots), play an important role in the Commission's work, but so does classical music.

    IPS Inter Press Service Raúl Pierri <editors@ipsnews.net> 2009

  • Drummers wearing big-sleeved costumes pound out the folkloric candombe rhythm, while scantily clad beauties shimmy in the streets.

    Tango and Cash Katy McLaughlin 2011

  • Every Sunday at noon in the Malvín neighborhood, a drumming group called La Gozadera walks about eight blocks playing candombe—Afro-Uruguayan folk music. lagozadera.org.uy

    Tango and Cash Katy McLaughlin 2011

  • Listen for spontaneous street performances of candombe, the African-inspired local drum music.

    Four Hours In Montevideo 2007

  • We have come to see the Murga that, along with candombe and milagro, constitutes the Afro-infused musical styles characteristic of Rio Platense (the culture of the people from Uruguay and Argentina who live on or near the Rio La Plata) Carnival.

    Lessons on Joy from Carnival 2007

  • The song proper is a gorgeously smooth bit of nu-candombe, with a chorus which has a touch of the Bee Gees about it.

    FreakyTrigger CarsmileSteve 2010

  • Percussionists play candombe during parade Las Llamadas (The Callings).

    Elites TV Global Voices Online 2010

  • Percussionists play candombe during parade Las Llamadas (The Callings).

    Elites TV 2010

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  • MaryW commented on the word candombe

    From a novel set (mostly) in Buenos Aires in 1913-1920:, this is a flashback to, probably late 19th century:

    in Buenos Aires . . . music rapped and hummed on every corner . . . payadas, sung by pairs of country men who knew the life of gauchos and horses and lassos and dirt, who battled each other through song, . . .; habaneras, sparked by sailors freshly arrived from Cuba . . .; milongas, those fast joyful songs that could fill a filthy alley with dancers more quickly than honey could draw flies; and candombe, the music of black people whose ancestors had come in ships from Africa, shackled, enslaved, and who now lived among the immigrants, . . . with the most incredible music, . . . music played on drums built with cast-off barrels, whose rhythms interlocked to form a tight vast sound. There was no melody. In Europe it would have been called noise. But candombe had a potency that hit him in his belly, and in depths he hadn't known about.
    Carolina de Robertis, The Gods of Tango (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2015), pp. 115-16

    September 4, 2016

  • MaryW commented on the word candombe

    From a novel set (mostly) in Buenos Aires in 1913-1920:

    Uncle Palo . . . played candombe—three drums of different sizes locking rhythms to form a complex throbbing whole . . . .
    Carolina de Robertis, The Gods of Tango (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2015), p. 283

    September 4, 2016