Pregon
Lambert M. Surhone, Mariam T. Tennoe, Susan F. Henssonow
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Pregon, a Spanish word meaning announcement, has a particular meaning in Cuban music, and Latin American music generally. It means a song based on a street-seller's cry ("canto de los vendedores ambulantes"). The cries of hawkers and costermongers could once be heard in every city in the world, though their use as a basis for song is particularly notable in Latin America and the Caribbean. Cristobal Diaz lists nearly five hundred examples, mostly from Cuba, but also Mexico, Chile, Colombia, Panama, Venezuela, Peru, Argentina, Dominica and Puerto Rico. The musical genres used in pregones are most often the son and the guaracha. The most famous example is El manisero, the Peanut Vendor, written...
ISBN: 978-6-1330-0109-1
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Дата выхода: июль 2011