It also covered African and candombe dance and helped some of the participants to form a comparsa.

UNESCO: International Fund for Cultural Diversity

Candombe: Inserting Disadvantaged Youths in the World of Work through a Cultural Expression.

UNESCO: 2005 Convention - International Fund

Developed by men who had left their families behind to start a life in Argentina's bustling capital city, the dance expressed machismo, passion, longing and a fighting edge - and was set to an emerging sound rooted in Spanish and Italian melodies, criollo (Argentine-born) verse and Afro-Uruguayan candombe (a drum-based rhythm).

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