chacarera
English
editEtymology
editNoun
editchacarera (countable and uncountable, plural chacareras)
- (uncountable) A genre of Argentinian and Bolivian folk music, a dance form played by contemporary musicians as soloists or in small ensembles of voice, guitar, violin and bombo drum.
- 2007 February 17, Nate Chinen, “A Wide World of Sound With an Argentine Beat”, in New York Times[1]:
- Along the way, he has built some fascinating bridges between jazz, pop, classical music and the chacareras and tangos of his native Argentina.
- (countable) A dance accompanying this music.
Spanish
editNoun
editchacarera f (plural chacareras)
Further reading
edit- “chacarero”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014