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Milonga

Tango's faster, older cousin — and the social where it is danced.

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Overview

Milonga
A musical genre and partnered dance of the Río de la Plata
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Etymology and naming

Milonga: Etymology and Naming
A single term spanning genre, dance, song, and verse in the Río de la Plata
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Origins

The Milonga and the Birth of Tango
From the rural pampa to the margins of Buenos Aires, how a gaucho song became the foundation of Argentine tango
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Payada and Rural Roots
The Río de la Plata and rural antecedents of milonga in the early history of tango
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Musical anatomy

Milonga Rhythm and the Habanera Base
A Caribbean rhythmic cell among the foundations of Río de la Plata dance music
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Technique

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Pioneers

Sebastián Piana: The Composer Who Reinvented the Milonga
The Buenos Aires pianist who, with Homero Manzi, turned the milonga into a modern urban song form
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Cultural context

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Recordings

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Common misconceptions

Milonga: Common Misconceptions
Untangling the genre's geography, ancestry, and relationship to tango
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Glossary

Milonga: A Glossary of the Genre and Its Dance
Key terms of the Río de la Plata genre, its cognate forms, shared tango idiom, and notated and composed repertoires
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Bibliography

Milonga: Bibliography and Sources
The dispersed source base for the study of a Río de la Plata genre and dance
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