Location

Argentina, officially the Argentine Republic is a country located mostly in the southern half of South
America. Sharing the bulk of the Southern Cone with Chile to the west, the country is also bordered
by Bolivia and Paraguay to the north, Brazil to the northeast, Uruguay and the South Atlantic Ocean to
the east, and the Drake Passage to the south. With a mainland area of
2,780,400 km (1,073,500 sq mi), Argentina is the eighth-largest country in the world, the fourth
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largest in the Americas, and the largest Spanish-speaking nation.

Typical music (video)

The music of Argentina includes a variety of traditional, classical and popular genres. One of the country's most
significant cultural contributions is the tango, which originated in Buenos Aires and its surroundings during the
end of the 19th century and underwent profound changes throughout the 20th century.

Tango arose in the brothels, bars and port areas of Buenos Aires, where waves of Europeans poured into the
country mixing various forms of music. The result, tango, came about as a fusion of disparate influences
including:

- old milonga – songs of the rural gauchos (originating in Andalucia)[5]

- habanera – Cuban music
- polka and mazurka – Slavic music
- contradanse – Spanish music
- flamenco – from Andalucia
- Italian folk music

Tango has changed from a dance-focused music to one of lyric and poetry, thanks to vocalists like Carlos Gardel,
Roberto Goyeneche, Hugo del Carril, Tita Merello, Susana Rinaldi, Edmundo Rivero and Ignacio Corsini.

Tango: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJ1aTPM-dyE

Folk music was particularly popular during the 20th century, experiencing a "boom" in popularity during the
1950s and 1960s thanks to artists such as Atahualpa Yupanqui and Mercedes Sosa, prominent figures of the
Nuevo cancionero movement.

Folk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98XkPHcmCv0
The romantic ballad genre included singers of international fame such as Sandro de América.

Sandro: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtUwBELM704

In the mid-to-late 1960s, the countercultural scene of Buenos Aires originated Argentine rock (known locally as
rock nacional, Spanish for "national rock"), considered the earliest incarnation of Spanish-language rock for
having an autochthonous identity that differed from that of England or the United States.

Argentine rock developed as a distinct musical style in the mid-1960s, when Buenos Aires and Rosario became
cradles of aspiring musicians. Founding bands like Los Gatos, Sui Generis, Almendra and Manal were followed
by Seru Giran, Los Abuelos de la Nada, Soda Stereo and Patricio Rey y sus Redonditos de Ricota, with prominent
artists including Gustavo Cerati, Litto Nebbia, Andrés Calamaro, Luis Alberto Spinetta, Charly García, Fito Páez
and León Gieco.

Soda Stereo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5u_iwszdHU