{"id":262,"date":"2009-09-08T15:37:16","date_gmt":"2009-09-08T20:37:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ferturperu.info\/?p=262"},"modified":"2015-12-29T16:04:22","modified_gmt":"2015-12-29T21:04:22","slug":"peruvian-waltz-vals-peruano-or-vals-criollo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fertur-travel.com\/blog\/2009\/peruvian-waltz-vals-peruano-or-vals-criollo\/262\/","title":{"rendered":"Peruvian Waltz: Vals Peruano or Vals Criollo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- [if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:View>Normal<\/w:View> <w:Zoom>0<\/w:Zoom> <w:DoNotOptimizeForBrowser \/> <\/w:WordDocument> <\/xml><![endif]--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: none;\">Sharing the \u00be time signature of the Viennese waltz, the Peruvian version also plays on themes of love and loss, but as this video shows, both the music and the steps have\u00a0 a more vigorous,\u00a0 staccato style than the traditional European dance.<!--more--><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: none;\">The melody is played on traditional Spanish guitar accompanied by the caj\u00f3n, <a title=\"Want to be part in the largest Afro-Peruano Caj\u00f3n jam session ever?\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fertur-travel.com\/blog\/2012\/want-to-be-part-in-the-largest-afro-peruano-cajon-jam-session-ever\/4275\/\">a wooden box percussion instrument played with the hands<\/a>. Afro-Peruvian singers have dominated this genre of music. The most famous exponent of the Vals Peruano is Lucha Reyes, who took the style to the rest of Latin America in the 1950s, and made it a source of national pride. Her manic and tragic life mirrored the themes of heartbreak in her songs. <!--[endif]--><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';\">The band Peru Negro has modernized Vals Criollo and their stage shows are extremely popular.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sharing the \u00be time signature of the Viennese waltz, the Peruvian version also plays on themes of love and loss, but as this video shows, both the music and the steps have\u00a0 a more vigorous,\u00a0 staccato style than the traditional European dance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10825,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,51,740],"tags":[61,80,60],"post_series":[],"class_list":["post-262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art-culture","category-peruvian-dances","category-video","tag-folk-dance-in-peru","tag-peru-vals-dance","tag-peruvian-dance","post_format-post-format-video","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fertur-travel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fertur-travel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fertur-travel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fertur-travel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fertur-travel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fertur-travel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fertur-travel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fertur-travel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fertur-travel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fertur-travel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262"},{"taxonomy":"post_series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fertur-travel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_series?post=262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}