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José Gobello

José Gobello (1919-2013) was a writer and journalist specialized in slang. He also was a founding member and president of the Academia Porteña del Lunfardo (Porteña Academy of Lunfardo), founded on December 21, 1962 to follow the evolution of popular speech of Buenos Aires and enhance cultural expressions -theater, tango, manners, urban-popular poetry- that have used and make use of lunfardo lexicon.
José Gobello was president of the Academia Porteña del Lunfardo (Buenosairean Academy of the Lunfardo), from 1995 until his death in 2013.

Lunfardo and Tango Argentino: Compadrito portrait

Lunfardo and Tango Argentino

Lunfardo and tango are certainly not blood brothers. Tango has black blood and lunfardo has gringo blood. I am not taking sides, as far as tango is concerned, in the controversy between Hispanists and Nigroists; I am just saying that what is Spanish in tango is of African lineage, including Andalusian tango, which had been … Leer más

Categories Cultural Identity, Literature, Music Tags Argentine Tango, José Gobello
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