
Committee (NICHC) and the UNESCO Regional Office for Eastern Africa. The project The Bandoneon: sound of Tango aims at safeguarding the bandoneon, a traditional instrument of Tango. Nowadays, however, there are only a handful of bandoneon players, most of whom are over 60 years of age, and only three luthiers dedicated to tuning and maintaining...
Antigua and Barbuda, Burundi
, Egypt
, Uruguay
8 October 2020>
Intangible cultural heritage inventorying underway in Latin America
ith the generous support of Norway through the Intangible Cultural Heritage Fund. In Argentina, the tango community in Buenos Aires will undertake a similar exercise in the coming months, after a workshop on drawing up inventories of intangible cultural heritage starting on 25 February in Buenos Aires. With the support of UNESCO/Japan Funds-in-Trus...
Cuba, Norway
26 February 2013>
Report on the implementation of the Convention
lot Inventory of Intangible Cultural Heritage to test new methods for improving community participation, covering Tango and Candombe. A National Inventory of Intangible Cultural Heritage is being planned, to be administered by the CPCN. Although it is a national instrument, departmental governments may also identify the intangible cultural heritage...
Frevo, performing arts of the Carnival of Recife
netic and vigorous rhythm draws upon the fusion of musical genres such as marching music, Brazilian tango, square dance, polka and pieces of classical repertoire, performed by martial bands and fanfares. The music is essentially urban, and like the accompanying dance, ‘Passo’, is vigorous and subversive. The dance stems from the skill and agili...
Brazilnetic and vigorous rhythm draws upon the fusion of musical genres such as marching music, Brazilian tango, square dance, polka and pieces of classical repertoire, performed by martial bands and fanfares. The music is essentially urban, and like the accompanying dance, ‘Passo’, is vigorous and subversive. The dance stems from the skill and agili...
7 December 2012>Paris
Cultural expressions and slave trade abolition
Slave trade Abolition,Cultural expressions and slave trade abolition,-PHOTO:03086-SML-L- Tango (2009) The Argentinian and Uruguayan tradition of the Tango, now familiar around the world, was developed by the urban lower classes in Buenos Aires and Montevideo in the Rio de la Plata basin. Among this mix of European immigrants to the region, descend...
...25 November 2015>Inventory-making: a cumulative in-depth study of periodic reports
;Click on concerned countries to read the full reports of submitted by States Parties.'' Tango (2009)Language, dance and music of the Garifuna (2008)Samba de Roda of the Recôncavo of Bahia (2008)Frevo, performing arts of the Carnival of Recife (2012)Marimba music and traditional chants from Colombia’s South Pacific region (2010)Cocolo...
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