Tango gets cultural UN approval.
Oct. 4- The Tango has been declared part of the world’s Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity by the United Nations.
Sarah Toms, Reuters.
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Minister of Culture for Buenos Aires, Hernan Lombardi,
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Tango gets cultural UN approval.
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- The Tango has been ‘the essence’ of Argentina for many centuries.
- UNESCO wants to protect the Tango.
- It has compiled a list of artistic traditions it wants to promote.
- Visitors to Argentina enjoy learning the Tango.
- Tango performers have been suffering from swine-flu.
- The Tango is getting support for it’s role in universal culture.
- The idea to draw up a list of artistic traditions emerged in 2002.
- UNESCO will help Argentina to keep Tango tradition ‘alive and kicking’.
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