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- Title
Una poca de gracia : Irish Music in Latin America.
- Authors
Murray, Edmundo
- Abstract
Why does traditional Irish music not integrate into the cultural world of Latin American and Caribbean countries? With a remote origin in Ireland and a creative flourishing in the United States, traditional Irish music made a late arrival in Latin America in the 1980s, together with the pub business and the marketing-orientated celebrations of St. Patrick's Day. Irish music represented a weak competitor to the luxuriant folkloric genres of the region, which amalgamated African, Amerindian, European and Arabic rhythms, melodies, and instruments. A few Irish-Latin Americans contributed to Latin American music as composers, song-writers, singers and dancers. Furthermore, there are some sources that point to the playing of Irish music in the Argentine pampas in the 1870s. A collection of ballads published by anonymous readers of a rural newspaper in Buenos Aires is an example. However, most traditional Irish music in Latin America is a low-quality imitation and pales with una poca de gracia beside the flourishing Latin American musical landscape.
- Subjects
LATIN America; LATIN American music; CELTIC music; IRISH songs; BARS (Drinking establishments); SAINT Patrick's Day
- Publication
Irish Migration Studies in Latin America, 2009, Vol 7, Issue 2, p239
- ISSN
1661-6065
- Publication type
Article