To say the names Agustin Lara or Cesar Portillo de la Luz is to evoke an era, a worldview, a way of life. Similarly, boleros are tied less to their various interpreters than to their famed composers, ones who are considered cornerstones of Latin American culture, not just creators of a song style. No matter how many celebrity crooners interpreted their tunes (Sinatra, Bennett, Fitzgerald), the songs were always branded by the songwriters. It is very much a living, evolving song style, refreshed by new composers and young generations of fans.Īs a song style, the bolero is more comparable to the music of the classic American Songbook, with songs closely connected to truly iconic composers such as Cole Porter, Irving Berlin, and stellar songwriting teams such as George and Ira Gershwin and Rodgers and Hammerstein. Yet, the bolero is not a passing fad, like disco or La Macarena, nor a style stuck in history, like ragtime or the French contredanse.
Meanwhile, along the Atlantic coast of the United States, racy reggaeton sounds from Puerto Rico and Panama attracted a new generation with profane lyrics and dirty dancing that left little room for the poetic tenderness and old-fashioned romanticism of traditional, genteel love songs.Īs the end of the millennium drew near, the lyrical bolero seemed like a thing of the past. Traditional Mexican music, which often featured boleros rancheros, was starting to lose ground to the controversial narco-corrido and the loud and brassy banda style from Mexico’s Pacific coast. Rock en Español was surging throughout Spain and Latin America. The bolero suffered a significant slump in the 1980s, a decade of major shifts in Latin music. But its popularity waned in the wake of new musical trends. It enjoyed a sustained period of success that spanned a third of the 20 th century, from the 1930s to the 1960s. Like most popular music styles, the bolero had its heyday before fading from the commercial mainstream. angelo francesco maja plisetzkaja & maurice béjart abour boléro.The bolero may not be what it used to be, but as they say in show business, it had a great run.mazz original masters provided to by symphonic distribution bolero.
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