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Heard

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Payada

practice · 1800–

Also called payada de contrapunto, contrapunto

Gaucho improvised guitar-verse contest of the pampas: décima or related stanzas in contrapunto (Ezeiza, Santos Vega legend). Empty Received is historically checked: Spanish contrapunto leftover as a verse practice, not a node; décima leftover as a verse form; Chilean paya leftover as a dialect of this contest job; canto a lo poeta leftover as a Chilean sacred-and-popular cousin. It already gives Milonga the rural sung-contest job that later urban milonga ciudadana recodes as dance. Brazilian pampa leftover as spread. Tango leftover as a later urban child of milonga, not a direct hop.

Listen

  1. Payada de contrapunto Gaucho payador tradition (traditional) YouTube
  2. Santos Vega (payada legend) Pampas tradition (nineteenth century)
  3. Payada Gabino Ezeiza (c. 1890s) YouTube
  4. Milonga campera (payada vehicle) Rural guitar tradition (traditional) YouTube
  5. Contrato de contrapunto Uruguayan and Argentine payadores (living / traditional)

Passed on

Milonga genre · 1870–

Rural milonga keeps payada’s guitar-verse contest job: strophic song, contrapunto display, then a faster 2/4 dance.

Influence
Nueva canción movement · 1960–

Nueva canción takes payada’s guitar-verse contest job — strophic coplas, a lone guitar, civic or gaucho speech — and recodes it as 1960s committed folklore.

Influence

Payada → Milonga

form and structureperformance practicemelodystrength: highscholarly consensus1870–1930oral

Mechanism

Rural milonga keeps payada’s guitar-verse contest job: strophic song, contrapunto display, then a faster 2/4 dance. Strength high. habanera milonga is the bass-cell hop; this edge is the gaucho song practice. Décima leftover as the verse form, not a node.

Evidence

Nineteenth-century payadores; Vega on pampa song-dance; urban milonga ciudadana as a later orquesta recoding of that rural song world.

Debate

Whether milonga simply is payada. Payada is the contest practice; milonga is the named song-and-dance genre that also becomes a tango-set tempo.

Mediators

community: Pampas payadores; artist: Gabino Ezeiza

Payada → Nueva canción

performance practiceform and structuremelodyfunction and contextstrength: mediumscholarly consensus1950–1970oralrecording

Mechanism

Nueva canción takes payada’s guitar-verse contest job — strophic coplas, a lone guitar, civic or gaucho speech — and recodes it as 1960s committed folklore. Strength medium. cueca nueva cancion is the Chilean dance-song hop; this edge is the Southern Cone verse-and-guitar parent. Folk-revival leftover as an Anglo sibling circuit, not a parent. Décima leftover as the verse form, not a node.

Evidence

Yupanqui as the named hinge from payada/folklore into the festival generation; Parra’s guitar verse beside him; Grove and Vega on pampa guitar-song behind later nueva canción.

Debate

Whether nueva canción simply is payada plus politics. Payada is the contest practice; nueva canción is the named movement that also quotes cueca and Andean instruments.

Mediators

artist: Atahualpa Yupanqui