Artists
who's who and who's doing what?Repentistas
- country:Cuba
- style(s):Traditional
- label:Accords Croisés
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After La Casa de la Trova, Emmanuelle HONORIN and CYRIUS find the paths of Cuban countryside with a group of poets-farmers, direct heirs of Hispanic jugglers who had spread in Latin America. Tribute to a high level literary and festive peasant world, these forms played with a travelling luth, are called tonada (melody) or controversia (verbal joust). These improvisations, which always ornament a precise metrical framework, have given one of the richest playful, quasi-spiritual expressions of the whole genre in Cuba.
Between music and agriculture, meat and poetry!
