E. S. Discépolo created this touching title song for the 1935 film El Alma Del Bandoneón from director Mario Soffici. The film also features Discépolo’s epoch-making protest tango “Cambalache.”
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El Alma De Bandoneón
The anthemic protest song “Cambalache” by Enrique Santos Discépolo (1901-1951) is one of the few tangos that transcends the genre entirely, and it has been adapted by punk bands as well as crossover hip-hop artists. Written in 1934 amid Argentina’s “Decade of Infamy” during the Great Depression, the song gave voice to the disaffected…