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milonga

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  • noun A form of music originating in Argentina, Uruguay and Southern Brazil

Etymologies

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From Spanish milonga

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Examples

  • I loved the word milonga, which means a kind of music, a style of dance, and a regular event—a rendezvous where people dance tango together.

    Day of Honey Annia Ciezadlo 2011

  • I loved the word milonga, which means a kind of music, a style of dance, and a regular event—a rendezvous where people dance tango together.

    Day of Honey Annia Ciezadlo 2011

  • Like a floating craps game, a milonga is a communion that resides not so much in a physical place, or a time, but in a gathering of souls.

    Day of Honey Annia Ciezadlo 2011

  • Like a floating craps game, a milonga is a communion that resides not so much in a physical place, or a time, but in a gathering of souls.

    Day of Honey Annia Ciezadlo 2011

  • The social, called a milonga in Argentine tango communities, is an opportunity for people to experience first hand the culture of the local Argentine Tango community, brought to you at RPI.

    unknown title 2009

  • (The milonga is the place where people go to dance tango.)

    All articles at Blogcritics 2009

  • "As a little child I had to study different forms of dances, and early on understood that artistic work and the stage were disciplines in and of themselves, but the 'milonga' and the dance of the dance floor come embedded in me from another source: my home," Hills says.

    The Vail Trail - All Sections 2009

  • 'Diferente' by Gotan Project shows how you might find tango danced today in a Buenos Aires milonga.

    A Modern Tango The Nag 2009

  • This was Tango Night, the Thursday night milonga that Munir had inaugurated.

    Day of Honey Annia Ciezadlo 2011

  • You'll also find a pool room, dining room, pipe-smokers' lounge, concert room which hosts jazz gigs and milonga classes, and a permanent exhibition of pipes in various stages of manufacture.

    10 of the best barrio bars in Barcelona 2011

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  • frangarnes commented on the word milonga

    Engaño, cuento

    October 20, 2007

  • MaryW commented on the word milonga

    From a novel set (mostly) in Buenos Aires in 1913-1920:, this is a flashback to, probably late 19th century:

    in Buenos Aires . . . music rapped and hummed on every corner . . . payadas, sung by pairs of country men who knew the life of gauchos and horses and lassos and dirt, who battled each other through song, . . .; habaneras, sparked by sailors freshly arrived from Cuba . . .; milongas, those fast joyful songs that could fill a filthy alley with dancers more quickly than honey could draw flies; and candombe, the music of black people whose ancestors had come in ships from Africa, shackled, enslaved, and who now lived among the immigrants, . . . with the most incredible music, . . . music played on drums built with cast-off barrels, whose rhythms interlocked to form a tight vast sound. There was no melody. In Europe it would have been called noise. But candombe had a potency that hit him in his belly, and in depths he hadn't known about.
    Carolina de Robertis, The Gods of Tango (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2015), pp. 115-16

    September 4, 2016