Nadine Jansen With Her Son

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Porteño The Origins of Carnival

Buenos Aires A long tradition in the carnival festivities

Buenos Aires has, in its long tradition of carnival, the celebration neighborhood where street musicians are the soul and the most genuine expression of the carnival, and carry on their shoulders the past itself, which bans were not lacking, flogging, punishment and disappearances.

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edicts and bans issued by viceroys, with threats of excommunication by the colonial bishops, until the decree of the military dictatorship in 1976, which erased the holiday schedule Monday and Tuesday Carnival, the party traveled a winding road.

In 1820 a review of the daily La Gaceta Mercantil said, facing a prohibitive edict carnival festivities that "we have been pleased that Mr. Judge police have issued measures to put in torture at all the famous carnival proselytes invented for the terrible scandal of all passions together. "

Then came the arrest warrant, ordered by Rosas in 1844, for those who contravene the prohibition on celebrating the carnival, and after his fall, the parties are restored, but with very strict control measures.

In 1869 he performed at Buenos Aires the first parade in processions of sooty black and white, which shone with their costumes and their rhythm, while his singing and dancing crazy and smooth legs and arms shot into the air.

began to emerge carnival for neighborhood groups, and each district of the city to have their parade. Twentieth century through which declined and resurfaced the festivities, in which stood his song murgas picaresque, satirical and socially critical and political, as at present.

is a tribute to "Dios Momo," who in Greek mythology behind a mask personifies criticism funny, clever mockery, while the doll's head symbolizes the madness.

The more time that is reminiscent of the old murgueros the 40's as one of the brightest moments of carnival celebrations. Had been left behind the economic crisis of 30 that went out for a while that spirit, and then come new insights and new outages.

Weaving between passion, bans and seizures, the street bands and parades through the streets of Buenos Aires. The year 30 had left the district as the core experience of the umbrella of the carnival groups that thrived coffee, stop, corner, football.

Later, in the years of dictatorship, although some very few street musicians held a narrow and cropped indoor activity, murga and the carnival is closed on itself against such a ban , censorship and repression. The silence was imposed on the streets at gunpoint sticking out of the falcon.

In the last decade, the recovery of Buenos Aires Carnival became flesh in the sense of carnival groups, which settled in the heart of Buenos Aires murgas those claiming their traditional holidays.

In this framework, managed in 1997 be declared, by ordinance 52039, the city's cultural heritage, and reinstall and the street musicians in parks and plazas, which are prepared throughout the year.

Meanwhile, the organization of the festivities was found with its history: the Corsican neighborhood, where people throng to watch the passing parade of street musicians until they reach the stage and display their singing and dancing to the beat of the drums, a distinctive feature of the Murga Buenos Aires.