Chacarera is a folk dance and music originated in the northwest of Argentina in the 19th century. Folk music, in the original sense of the term, is music by and for the common people. ... The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view. ... Music is a form of art and entertainment or other human activity that involves organized and audible sounds and silence. ... Alternative meaning: Nineteenth Century (periodical) (18th century — 19th century — 20th century — more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 19th century was that century which lasted from 1801-1900 in the sense of the Gregorian calendar. ...

The Chacarera is usually played with guitar, violin, accordion and bombo legüero, with a melody in 6/8 that follows the bombo in 3/4, and its danced by couples loosely dancing on their own, but in groups, with rounds and turns. A classical guitar, also called a Spanish guitar, is a musical instrument from the guitar family. ... This article does not cite its references or sources. ... A 24-bass piano accordion An accordion is a musical instrument of the handheld bellows-driven free reed aerophone family, sometimes referred to as squeezeboxes. ... Bombo legüero is an Argentine drum traditionally made of a hollowed tree trunk and covered with cured skins of animals such as goats, cows or sheep. ... The time signature (also known as meter signature) is a notational device used in Western musical notation to specify how many beats are in each bar and what note value constitutes one beat. ...

While the exact origin remains unknown, around 1850, people started dancing Chacarera in the northwest of Argentina, specially in Santiago del Estero. The name originates from the word "chacra" ("farm"), as it was usually danced in rural areas, but it slowly made its way to the cities of that area. Santiago del Estero is a town in northern Argentina, capital of Santiago del Estero Province, on the Dulce River. ...

At the beginning of the 20th century, the Chacarera arrived to Buenos Aires, but in spite of the welcome of this traditional form of music, it couldn't compete with the popularity of tango. (19th century - 20th century - 21st century - more centuries) Decades: 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s As a means of recording the passage of time, the 20th century was that century which lasted from 1901–2000 in the sense of the Gregorian calendar (1900–1999... Buenos Aires (English: ; originally , City of the Most Holy Trinity and Port of Saint Mary of the Fair Winds;[1] pronounced ) is the capital of Argentina and its largest city and port. ... Argentine Tango music is traditionally played by an orquesta tipica, which often includes violin, piano, guitar, flute, and especially bandoneon. ...

In the sixties, the Chacarera increased its popularity, with the general resurgence of Argentinean Folklore, in the voices of Los Chalchaleros, Los Tucu Tucu, and specially with the Carabajal Family, which represents many generations of Chacarera musics and singers, beginning with Carlos Carabajal, named "Father of the Chacarera", despite of being many years later of the Chacareras origin, and folowing with Los Carabajal, Peteco Carabajal, Rosana Carabajal, and many others.

Chacarera is still played and danced in many provinces of Argentina, specially in Catamarca, Salta, Tucumán, Santiago del Estero, and Jujuy, and it can be also found in the south of Bolivia. Each Province has it own flavour of chacarera with subtle differences, mainly in the steps (Chacarera doble, Chacarera larga, Chacarera trunca, etc). Catamarca is a province of Argentina, located in the northwest of the country. ... Salta is a province of Argentina, located in the northwest of the country. ... Tucumán is a province of Argentina, located in the northwest of the country. ... Map of Argentina highlighting the province Jujuy is a province of Argentina, located in the extreme northwest of the country, at the borders with Chile and Bolivia. ...

Dance

It is a rapid dance in triple meter for couples, danced in groups, which begins with the beating of the feet on the ground while the guitarist strums the introductory bars. The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view. ... Metre is the measurement of a musical line into measures of stressed and unstressed beats, indicated in Western notation by a symbol called a time signature. ... A guitarist is a musician who plays the guitar. ... A strum is the act of brushing ones fingers over (strumming) the strings of a string instrument such as a guitar. ...

Origin of the music

There may be a link between the chacarera and the chaconne, which is described in The New Oxford Companion to Music as follows: "A dance in triple meter which originated in Latin America and was taken up as a form and variations in Spain and Italy in the early seventeenth century, in France soon after. The Latin American chacona had both instrumental and vocal accompaniment. The refrain was constructed upon one of a series of typical harmonic schemes (e.g. I-VI-IV-V; I-V-VI-V). Some composers used the same melody throughout the piece, repeating it in the manner of a ground bass." Many of these chaconne characteristics, such as a refrain in a “typical” harmonic scheme and an almost ostinato-like ground bass, are found in Ginastera’s “Chacarera.” It has been speculated that the chaconne and the chacarera had a common origin and parallel developments, now reunited appropriately in the neoclassicism of this composition. In music a chaconne is a musical form. ... Latin America consists of the countries of South America and some of North America (including Central America and some the islands of the Caribbean) whose inhabitants mostly speak Romance languages, although Native American languages are also spoken. ... In music, variation is a formal technique where material is altered during repetition; reiteration with changes. ... (16th century - 17th century - 18th century - more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 17th century was that century which lasted from 1601-1700. ... Composers are people who write music. ... In music, a ground bass is a bass part or bassline that repeats continually, as an ostinato, while the melody and possibly harmony over it change. ... A refrain (from the Old French refraindre to repeat, likely from Vulgar Latin refringere) is the line or lines that are repeated in music or in verse; the chorus of a song. ... In music, an ostinato (derived from Italian: stubborn, compare English: obstinate) is a motif or phrase which is repeated over and over again. ... Neoclassicism (sometimes rendered as Neo-Classicism or Neo-classicism) is the name given to quite distinct movements in the visual arts, literature, theatre, music, and architecture. ...

See also

• List of dances
• Music of Argentina
• Argentine folklore
• Latin American folklore

This is the main list of dances. ... Leading Argentine singer, Mercedes Sosa (right), with the First Lady of Argentina, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, September 2005 Internationally, Argentina is known mostly for the tango, which developed in Buenos Aires and surrounding areas, as well as Montevideo, Uruguay. ... Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ...

External links

• Argentine Folk (Spanish)
• Folk of the North (Spanish)
• List of chacareras
• Structure of the dance