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  • Sangit Prats sings the most poetic popular songs from Argentina, the "zamba" called; "

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  • But Mr. Klein's native Argentina, where he first fell under the sway of such indigenous musical styles as zamba and chacarera, eventually drew him back home.

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  • Y no le asustan las balas ni el ladrar de la jauría, Caramba y zamba la cosa, Que viva la astronomía, Ms. FERNANDEZ VIOLANTE: We were very young, very naive.

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  • Y no le asustan las balas ni el ladrar de la jauría, Caramba y zamba la cosa, Que viva la astronomía, SIEGEL: This is one of the anthems of the Mexican student movement and student movements throughout Latin America.

    Mexico's 1968 Massacre: What Really Happened? 2008

  • During the race the negroes are pelted with unripe oranges and lemons, which, when thrown by the vigorous arm of a zamba, inflict a sufficiently heavy blow.

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  • Demon­strating their techniques, a man dumped several spade-loads of soil into a zamba, or shallow wooden bucket, which he filled with water from the stream.

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  • YOU ARE A JOKE, ALL BRAZILEANS ARE HOOKERS AND CHEAPS ONES AND UGLY AND FAT AND FULL OF AIDS AND POVERTY AND FAVELAS, I've been there once is was my worst nightmare and FULL OF STUPID PEOPLE MORE THAN ANYTHING ... they have no class, no culture, they only care about dancing zamba, or lambada or that crap, that kind of chesse music, you all brazileans belong to only one place, ... the CIRCUS ...

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  • YOU ARE A JOKE, ALL BRAZILEANS ARE HOOKERS AND CHEAPS ONES AND UGLY AND FAT AND FULL OF AIDS AND POVERTY AND FAVELAS, I've been there once is was my worst nightmare and FULL OF STUPID PEOPLE MORE THAN ANYTHING ... they have no class, no culture, they only care about dancing zamba, or lambada or that crap, that kind of chesse music, you all brazileans belong to only one place, ... the CIRCUS ...

    Home 2009

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