baguala

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English

Etymology

From Spanish baguala.

Noun

baguala (uncountable)

  1. A genre of folk music of northeastern Argentina.
    • 1978, Sing Out:
      The vidala is our form of the blues. The baguala and the vidala are our musical vanguard, even though they're thousands of years old. The youth of the world are searching for a cry and a Song with a cosmic force.
    • 2006, Goldberg: Early Music Magazine:
      Thus, even today we can see the survival of these basic modes in the tritonic scale of the baguala musical genre of the Inca region, which uses only the major chord notes to generate its melodies.

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /baˈɡwala/
  • Rhymes: -ala
  • Syllabification: ba‧gua‧la

Noun

baguala f (plural bagualas)

  1. (music) a genre of folk music of northeastern Argentina
    • 2006, Damián Rodríguez Kees, Liliana Herrero: vanguardia y canción popular, Ediciones UNL, page 85:
      [] ; un icono de la canción rockera argentina de los ’80 es trabajado sobre un ritmo de baguala.
      ; an icon of the Argentinian rock songs of the 80s is based on a baguala rhythm.

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