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Chacarera is played on the guitar, violin, and
bombo legüero (drum), and sometimes with an
accordion. It is an upbeat country rhythm with
a dance akin to a line dance with couples
moving in and out of the embrace position.
Los Chalchaleros are the best-known
performers of this popular genre.
La Nueva Canción is a pan-national movement that
emerged in the wake of the successful Cuban
Revolution, when Latin American songwriters began to
compose protest songs. Argentina's Mercedes Sosa was
an early pioneer and over a span of 30 years has
become the best-known exponent of the style.
Mapuche Music
Although recordings of the
musical traditions of the now
extinct Tehuelche, Diaguita, and
Querandies cultures are difficult
to find, there is still a living
Mapuche tradition in Argentina.
Artists such as Beatriz Pichi
Malen perform songs in
Mapundungun , the Mapuche
tongue, and incorporate native
instruments and ancient poetry
into their compositions.
Mapuche music springs from a
tradition of living in close and
harmonious contact with nature. Unlike most Western
music, it is not codified or written but based on natural
melodic patterns and ancestral rhythms that are trans-
mitted orally. Mapuche music influences their poetry,
dance, dramatic representations, empirical medicine, as
well as religious beliefs.
Bombo legüero , an Andean
skin drum
A siku , pan pipe
made of bamboo
Mapuche singer Beatriz
Pichi Malen
Quena , a traditional six-hole
bamboo flute
Folklore instruments such as the pan
flute and quena are the essentials of
Andean music, and are often combined
with the charango and violin. Mapuche
folk musicians have their own distinctive
instruments, including the trutruka (horn)
and kultrun (hide-drum).
Rock nacional started in Buenos Aires and Rosario in the 1960s.
Although initially incorporating many British rock influences,
musicians later explored local musical roots and created a
distinctive sound. Santa Fe-born León Gieco (left) is a well-loved
veteran performer of folk-rock music.
Pop and fusion thrive in
Argentina, as young people
are able to explore inter-
national musicians as well as
listen to major local bands
such as Divididos and Bersuit
Vergarabat. Soda Stereo, led
by Gustavo Cerati (right) , is
the most successful band to
emerge in Argentina in the
past 30 years.
 
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