{"id":176431260,"date":"2014-01-20T00:41:16","date_gmt":"2014-01-20T06:41:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/?p=176431260"},"modified":"2014-01-20T00:41:16","modified_gmt":"2014-01-20T06:41:16","slug":"video-tango-negro-the-african-roots-of-tango","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/2014\/01\/20\/video-tango-negro-the-african-roots-of-tango\/","title":{"rendered":"VIDEO: Tango Negro, The African Roots of Tango"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/tango-negro.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-176431262\" alt=\"tango negro\" src=\"http:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/tango-negro.jpg\" width=\"596\" height=\"346\" srcset=\"http:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/tango-negro.jpg 596w, http:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/tango-negro-300x174.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 596px) 100vw, 596px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h1 id=\"watch-headline-title\"><span style=\"font-size: xx-large;\">Tango Negro, <\/span><\/h1>\n<h1><span style=\"font-size: xx-large;\">The African Roots of Tango<\/span><\/h1>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"922\" height=\"519\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/b1OCMY06u7M?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">Tango Negro, The African Roots of Tango by Angolan filmmaker Dom Pedro explores the expression of Tango&#8217;s Africanness and the contribution of African cultures in the creation of the tango. Tango was a reflection of the social life of the slaves that were taken to South America &#8212; including Argentina and Uruguay &#8212; mostly from central Africa, particularly from the former Kongo Kingdom. Director Dom Pedro reveals the depth of the footprints of the African music on the tango, through this rich movie combining musical performances and interviews from many tango fans and historians in Latin America and Europe, including the renowned Argentinean pianist Juan Carlos Caceres<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">Directed by Dom Pedro, 2013, 93 min., France, Documentary , French\/Spanish\/ English subt. &#8211; US Distributors &#8211; ArtMattan Films www.AfricanFilm.com<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Tango Negro, The African Roots of Tango Tango Negro, The African Roots of Tango by Angolan filmmaker Dom Pedro explores the expression of Tango&#8217;s Africanness and the contribution of African cultures in the creation of the tango. Tango was a reflection of the social life of the slaves that were taken to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","_s2mail":"yes"},"categories":[6],"tags":[4,12,11],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176431260"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176431260"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176431260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":176431263,"href":"http:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176431260\/revisions\/176431263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176431260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176431260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176431260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}