Note 212 — LEYENDAS DEL PAÍS DE LA SELVA C. O. Bunge (Según Ricardo Rojas)
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“payar”. Music plays an important part in all the gatherings among Argentine countrymen. Two payadores, or bards, engage in a musical contest: each man sings in turn, accompanying himself on the guitar on any improvised subject, and at the end the audience expresses its approval of the winner by its applause.