Meaning of parandero | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A barfly; one who is routinely drunk and dissolute.
   Southwestern, US
2. A man who performs parang music.
   Caribbean

Examples

“Don Francisco's lupine dissimulation was perfect. A weatherbeaten parandero, an incorrigible roue and a guzzler ...”

“Nazi infection took hold⟳, of course, more easily among the usual weaklings, hotel-bar politicians and paranderos, or drunkards.”

“May I be damned in heaven and hell, I'm looking for that drunken parandero, that tramp, my capataz.”

“The following section will expand⟳ on the image of Zapata as a parandero, but with a special focus⟳ on his reputation as a seducer.”

“On the Caribbean coast, the Ganfuna communities are known for their paranda, most of whose practitioners (paranderos) are fairly elderly and live⟳ in Belize.”

“The possibility, however remote, was enough for one parandero to point⟳ this out as part of my education into the tradition. In retrospect, during the first night of parang in 1989, I learned far more than chords and rhythms.”

“Few people know⟳ this, but at a time when many young people were turning away from Garifuna traditions, Andy's very first recording was a song on Traditional Music of the Garifuna (Black Carib) of Belize (Folkways, 1 982), with late parandero Gabaga Williams on guitar, backed by a female chorus and Garifuna drummers.”

“The paranderos, the singers, had arrived.”

“Paul Nabor was a legendary Garifuna parandero from Punta Gorda, Wilfred Peters was a Creole brukdown accordionist from Belize City, and Florencio Mess is a traditional Maya harpist living in the farming village of San Pedro Columbia.”

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