Juan Carlos Cobián (1888–1953) was an

Argentine Argentines, Argentinians or Argentineans are people from Argentina. This connection may be residential, legal, historical, or cultural. For most Argentines, several (or all) of these connections exist and are collectively the source of their ...

bandleader A bandleader is the leader of a music group such as a dance band, rock or pop band or jazz quartet. The term is most commonly used with a group that plays popular music as a small combo or a big band, such as one which plays jazz, blues, rhyth ...

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tango Tango is a partner dance and social dance that originated in the 1880s along the Río de la Plata, the natural border between Argentina and Uruguay. The tango was born in the impoverished port areas of these countries from a combination of Arge ...

composer. He led the "evolutionary" tendency in tango which was perceived as tending to concert music than to traditional dance music.Jorge Finkielman The Film Industry in Argentina: An Illustrated Cultural History 2004- Page 95 "On one side was the "evolutionary" tendency, started by Juan Carlos Cobian, Osvaldo Fresedo, and Julio De Caro. According to the newspapers from the time it was more concert music than dance music. On the other was the "traditional" "

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