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El Rincón Español - homeschool Spanish support
Oct. 22, 2008
Cienfuegos tiene su guanguancó por The Buena Vista Social Club

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Cienfuegos tiene su Guagauncó - The Buena Vista Social Club
Cienfuegos has its own Groove - The Buena Vista Social Club


The Buena Vista Social Club is a project that united Cuban singers of pre-revolution days to recreate their great sounds.  This song celebrates the Cuban coastal city of Cienfuegos, and will have you tapping your feet.  An English translation is offered on screen.  They translate guaguancó as "special sound", and that just doesn't quite grasp the meaning to me.  It is really used more like we would use "groove" in a slang sense to talk about music.  The word guajiro is also used in the song and not translated at all.  It refers to a guy from the Cuban countryside.

Whether or not Cienfuegos still has guanguanco after 50 years of Castro and a few nasty hurricanes may be in doubt... ahhh I'll bet someone there still does!

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