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What is Candombe?
Candombe can-dome-bey is an African vandombe rhythm that has been an important part of Uruguayan culture for over two hundred years. Uruguay, with a population of approximately 3.
This rhythm traveled to Uruguay de, Africa with black slaves, and is still going strong in the streets, halls and carnivals of this small enchanting country. To understand how this rhythm, which is so strongly rooted in Uruguayan culture evolved, one would need to turn back the pages of African and South American history to look at how this contagious rhythm anchored at the shores of Montevideo.
The text that follows are excerpts from books and articles written about candombe, as well as the viewpoint of individuals who have been close to this scene.
Montevideo, the capital of Uruguay, was founded by the Spanish in a process that was begun in and completed in African slaves were first introduced to the city in The roots of this population were not homogeneous, but rather a multi-ethnic swath of Africa that was culturally quite varied. The Bantu area is an enormous cultural region of Africa with an extremely complex mosaic of ethnicities, consisting of over groups with a linguistic heritage that overwhelms man’s migratory limits: It is believed that no less than ten million “ebony pieces” disembarked on the coasts of North and South America.
This implies a bleeding of sixty million souls, if we consider that only one of every six victims of this human traffic ever made it alive to the harbors where they were to be auctioned.
To understand what this meant, in demographic terms, it is sufficient to consider that at the beginning of the 19th Century, Buenos Aires had a population of merely 50 thousand.
Biafra, you’re deserted and your drums are no longer around While they could, your people sang: Ne-ia ne-ia cumaia-nagata Ne-ia ne-ia cumaia-nagata.
The term is generic for all black dances: Its musical spirit sums up the sorrows of the unfortunate slaves, who were hastily transplanted to South America to be sold and subjected to brutal work. These were pained souls, harboring an inconsolable nostalgia for their homeland.
They banned them and harshly punished their participants, considering the dances a threat to public morals. The African poet Amos Totuola writes: El Tango by Pedro Figari 35x50cm.
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