In its publication “Argentina is also Afro”, INADI carries out a historical study on its influence, which, among its other expressions, also includes music and, in particular, the tango. According to ...

The sensual passionate tango dance originated in the River Plate cities of Montevideo and Buenos Aires and the presentation was jointly submitted by Uruguay and Argentina to the Unesco convention ...

After football, tango is probably Argentina's best-known export and now the government wants it to be recognised by the United Nations cultural organisation, Unesco. Argentine President Fernando de la ...

The members of UNESCO's Intergovernmental Committee of Intangible Heritage on Wednesday granted the tango dance and its music protected cultural status. Carmakers and car dealers may not have much ...

On Wednesday, the UNESCO Intergovernmental Committee of Intangible Heritage granted tango protected cultural status. "We are very proud," Hernan Lombardi, culture minister of the autonomous city ...

The Argentinian and Uruguayan tradition of the Tango, now familiar around the world, was developed by the urban lower classes in Buenos Aires and Montevideo in the Rio de la Plata basin. Among this ...

In 2009, UNESCO gave tango, whose Rio Platense birthplace includes Argentina and Uruguay, status as part of the world’s “Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.” No surprise to Argentines ...

PARIS The United Nations on Wednesday declared the tango tradition of Argentina and Uruguay a world cultural treasure, adding its sultry dance steps and melancholy song lyrics to Unesco's heritage ...

Simply, we had a festival because there was demand for it.” The ads for the festival highlighted that it was in Abu Dhabi in 2009 that Unesco declared tango a cultural heritage to humanity.

Tango is a tradition of music and dance, developed in working-class dance halls in the Latin American cities of Buenos Aires and Montevideo and now known all over the world as a symbol of sensuous ...