por Jaime Torres.

One of these days I’m going to write the post on “looking for Argentine music that’s not tango.” There’s a lot of it, but you wouldn’t know looking through most “world music” sections of CD stores.

Jaime’s a good start.

1. 
   Rob G 2007 05 02 at 9:53:56 am

   There’s also the uniquely Argentine soccer/protest songs of the 80s as discussed here. For example

   Milicos malparidos, que han hecho
   con los desaparecidos
   La deuda externa, la corrupción, es la
   peor mierda que ha tenido la nación
   Que pasó con las Malvinas, esos
   chicos ya no están,
   no podemos olvidarlos
   Cada vez los quiero más

2. 
   Juan-Carlos Lerman 2007 05 02 at 12:39:45 pm

   To find CDs with this type of music you should look under Andean, Peruvian, Bolivian. This is music from the Altiplano and spills into the North of Argentina. The instrumentg is a “charango”, made of the shell of an armadillo type of animal. Naturally, after you roast it and eat it…

3. 
   Vasha 2007 05 02 at 6:17:06 pm

   OT: A while ago, there was a thread about natural-history bloopers in film. I just found a nice blooper on a book cover: here is a book by Karl May, the early-20th-century German writer of “westerns” and other exotic adventure stories; the book is titled “Unter Geiern” that is “Among Vultures”, and shows a Plains Indian in full regalia along with an Old World vulture, with its bare neck and “ruff” around shoulders.

4. 
   Nan McIntyre 2007 05 03 at 12:04:06 pm

   Our national radio “alt music” programming has a fetish about tango - I know what you mean.

   Jaime is a thrilling performer.
   I wish my old copy of “Charango” had survived getting borrowed once too often.
   It seems to be out of print everywhere.
   I miss the version of “Sirvinaco” on it because it’s a real taste of the giddiness of bailecito. 

   And samba doesn’t get enough air either, imho.
   Write that post!

5. 
   Chris Clarke 2007 05 03 at 1:31:36 pm

   Nan, on a completely unrelated topic: do you have an email address where on could send large files?