All Facets of Folkloric Music
Capital Federal, Buenos Aires  Argentina
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It's all about the facets of Argentine folklore, the typical music styles originally from South-american countries (Peru, Bolivia, Uruguay, among others) and a slightly mixture of its roots and Contemporary music.
In general, it's called "musica folklorica" or "folklore" in Spanish -from transliteration of the English folklore- and it comes in many forms, developed in different parts of Argentina with different European and indigenous influences. Among the first traditional folk groups to record extensively in Argentina, three of the most influential were from the northwest: Los Chalchaleros and Los Fronterizos from the Province of Salta and the Abalos brothers from Santiago del Estero Province. Becoming nearly instant successes following their first albums around 1950, they inspired a revival of the genre in Argentina.
Traditional folk music became increasingly important during the protest movement against the military dictatorship and the community divisions of the 1970s, with artists like Mercedes Sosa and Atahualpa Yupanqui, contributing to the development of "nueva cancion". Perhaps the best-known venue for Argentine folklore music, the National Folklore Festival of Cosquin has been gathering musicians from the genre annually since 1961. A modest event at first, the festival has grown to include folk musicians from neighboring countries and Asia, as well as from throughout Argentina, itself. Focusing on folklore music, the festival nevertheless features talent from the worlds of tango, acoustic music and international culture.

Sub-genres and hybrid forms:

* Baguala
* Caluyo
* Candombe
* Carnavalito
* Chacarera
* Chamarrita
* Chamame
* Chaya
* Cifra
* Cielito

* Cogollo o Cogoyo
* Copla
* Cueca
* Cumbia villera
* Decima
* Escondido
* Gato
* Guaracha santiagueña
* Huayno
* Huella

* Malambo
* Media caña
* Milonga
* Murga
* Payada
* Pericon
* Argentine Polca
* Rasguido doble
* Refalosa
* Saya

* Tango
* Nuevo tango
* Tonada
* Tristecito
* Triunfo
* Valsecito criollo
* Vidala
* Vidalita
* Yarabi
* Zamba


Although, "folklore" is the body of expressive culture, including tales, music, dance, legends, oral history, proverbs, jokes, popular beliefs, customs, and so forth within a particular population comprising the traditions (including oral traditions) of that culture, subculture, or group. It is also the set of practices through which those expressive genres are shared. The academic and usually ethnographic study of folklore is sometimes called folkloristics. The word 'folklore' was first used by the English antiquarian William Thoms in a letter published by the London Journal Athenaeum in 1846.
Folklore can contain religious or mythic elements, it equally concerns itself with the sometimes mundane traditions of everyday life. Folklore frequently ties the practical and the esoteric into one narrative package. It has often been conflated with mythology, and vice versa, because it has been assumed that any figurative story that does not pertain to the dominant beliefs of the time is not of the same status as those dominant beliefs. Thus, Roman religion is called "myth" by Christians. In that way, both "myth" and "folklore" have become catch-all terms for all figurative narratives which do not correspond with the dominant belief structure.