Piano, repique, chico…
The sizes of the three drums brought such color
When one was lost in cultural amnesia
Credit slowly became due long after Barcelona’s crown was rejected
The connection to the lost was retrieved
By hand and by clave
The memories flooded and the shame evaporated
After centuries of propaganda
Robust sounds burst by trios or infantries or cuerdas
Encore, maestros!
What a beautiful poem — great work! 👍
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Thank you very much! This was inspired by a recent documentary I watched involving tango and candombe music, so I wanted to write something based on what I learned in poetic form.
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I really love it when something has such an impact, creatively, that it bleeds through one’s prose! 😊 If I may ask, what was the title the documentary?
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Thanks! I get inspiration from so many different things. Then again, I did resort to pop culture references in a satirical way in a previous poem a few posts prior to this one.
The documentary is called Tango Negro which deals with the African influence of tango and candombe music in Argentina and Uruguay. I didn’t even know that tango wasn’t even a Spanish word to begin with and it’s the Lingala and Kikongo word for “time” or “moment”. At first, I thought it was a false cognate with the former, but I was wrong. Yes, “tango” is a word in 2 different Congolese languages.
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I’ll have to check it out 😀
I love documentaries that dive into the musical origins of something! I didn’t know that tango began as a Congolese word, that’s fascinating! I’ll have to check it out sometime, I’ve been waiting until I get my old glasses frames replaced, so I can watch TV again. Right now, I’ve basically been living off of podcasts and re-watching the English dub of Gundam SEED.
Note: I’m near-sighted. 😅
I’ve been really wanting to watch that anime you and Ashley suggested before, too: Kurogane Communication.
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Yeah, I highly recommend that documentary. They need to play that in schools. I would’ve never guessed that either. It was such a fascinating watch. Oof, I hard relate because I’m nearsighted, too.
OMG, YES! Please watch Kurogane Communication whenever you can. That anime is mad underrated. It’s the happiest post-apocalyptic show (not just anime) that the world didn’t know it needed.
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