{"id":877,"date":"2010-03-17T19:35:15","date_gmt":"2010-03-17T19:35:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/?p=877"},"modified":"2010-03-17T19:36:35","modified_gmt":"2010-03-17T19:36:35","slug":"%c2%a1carnavales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/%c2%a1carnavales\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00a1Carnavales!"},"content":{"rendered":"

This last month has been a busy one, not only for the celebration of St. Valentine\u2019s day all over the world, or the beginning of the Chinese New Year, this year in honor to the tiger, but also for the celebration of the Carnival: most of us know about the parades in Brazil, and the masks in Venice, but I\u2019d like to introduce you to the \u201cchirigotas<\/strong>\u201d of C<\/strong>\u00e1<\/strong>diz,<\/strong> a typical Andalusian celebration!<\/p>\n

Although the carnival tradition goes back several centuries before Christianity, it was adopted as a prelude to Lent, the forty days of penance before the Holy Week. During these holidays it was \u201cDon Carnal<\/strong>\u201d who governed, and he was allowed to satisfy all mundane appetites, until \u201cDo\u00f1a Cuaresma<\/strong>\u201d arrived implanting the fasting and abstinence.<\/p>\n

In C\u00e1diz<\/strong>, these moments of freedom are used today to create a satire of the social reality and politics of the year. Disguises and masks are used as in other cities, but the real essence of these carnivals \u00a0are the “chirigotas<\/strong>“,\u00a0 invented musical jests that are the instrument that the gaditanos<\/strong> (natives from C\u00e1diz) use as sharp weapons to criticize all that \u00a0angers them. Groups of 7 to 15 men form these \u201cchirigotas<\/strong>\u201d (I\u2019m afraid that to date only men can take part in the official jests) singing in different voices and accompanied by guitarras, bandurrias, tambores, cajones, mirlitones, guiros,<\/strong> etc.<\/p>\n

There are several compositions included in their repertory: the presentation, the pasodobles<\/strong>, the cupl\u00e9s<\/strong> and the popurr\u00edes<\/strong>. The presentation and the popurr\u00edes <\/strong>use music from actual and well known songs, but the other ones must be totally original. And all that is accompanied by disguises, staging, and lots of good humor, not only on the part of the members of the \u201cchirigotas<\/strong>\u201d but also from a public eager to enjoy a good laugh!<\/p>\n

It would be great to meet you next year in C\u00e1diz<\/strong> to enjoy their Carnavales!<\/strong><\/p>\n

You can see the live performance of \u201cLo que diga mi mujer<\/strong>\u201d (Whatever my wife says) in this link, and read the lyrics both in Andalusian Spanish and its English translation\u2026<\/p>\n

http:\/\/libretodecarnaval.blogspot.com\/2009\/09\/lo-que-diga-mi-mujer-in-english.html<\/a><\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=bW5YOPQHi7o<\/a><\/p>\n


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This last month has been a busy one, not only for the celebration of St. Valentine\u2019s day all over the world, or the beginning of the Chinese New Year, this year in honor to the tiger, but also for the celebration of the Carnival: most of us know about the parades in Brazil, and the…<\/p>\n

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