chacarera
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
chacarera (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[edit]
Noun[edit]
chacarera f (plural chacareras)
Further reading[edit]
- “chacarero”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014