Listening blog #2
Week 1 Blog Post
For this week's listening blog, I listened to La Cumparsita by Carlos Gardel. It is such a sad song but it is beautifully made. It is essentially about a man whose wife left him and now his world is not the same. He talks about how since this happened, his friends no longer come to visit him, and how nobody wants to console him. He talks about how not even the sun peeks out of the window anymore, and how his dog stopped eating upon her absence, and then left him as well. I speak a good amount of spanish, and I enjoy listening to music in spanish to expand my vocabulary and comfort with the language. I thought it was interesting that he uses the word "dejar" to describe his wife and dog "leaving him". I know that word to be used in the sense of simply leaving, but perhaps in this context it could mean death. For example, he talked about how the dog stopped eating, and then leaving him. Listening to the song for the first couple of times I interpreted it as his wife and dog just up and leaving him, but now I am thinking that they passed away.
I think that your view on "La Cumparsita" is very enlightening. As I don't speak Spanish, I did not have a clue as to what the words meant, so being able to read about the true meaning of the lyrics is very interesting. However, I wonder from what you have said about the story that is being told, perhaps the wife did just simply leave rather have died.
ReplyDeleteHi Connor, after listening of La Cumparista by Carlos Gardel I think that it's a kind of tango. I think that this song is for the people who like dancing together the night for a kind of ball. This music is very special cause we can hear that there are just one instrument which seems to be the guitar.
ReplyDeleteYour description of the song is very thorough, and accurate I am guessing. I don't speak any Spanish at all, so I have no idea what he is saying, but it sounds like a very sad song. It reminds me of old western movies I used to watch as a kid.
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