Nostalgia Night
In Uruguay, the Nostalgia Night (Spanish: Noche de la Nostalgia) is celebrated every 24 August. All dance clubs, radio stations, and many other events play "nostalgic music" (oldies).[1]
| Noche de la Nostalgia | |
|---|---|
| Official name | Noche de la Nostalgia |
| Observed by |  |
| Type | National |
| Date | 24 August |
| Next time | 24 August 2020 |
| Related to | dancing, oldies |
Overview
Its origins are somewhat disputed. It started on 24 August 1978. According to José Fernández, owner of the Disco Ton Ton Metek, as 24 August is the day before Uruguayan Independence Day, a national holiday, he once proposed to Pablo Lecueder (director of the broadcast program Old Hits, then at CX32 Radiomundo) to do something on the night that could be commercially profitable.[2]
That same year, on the night of 24 August, the first Nostalgia Night was held in Ton Ton; this is disputed. The night repeated its success and became part of Uruguayan folklore.
Uruguayans are said to be typically nostalgic.[3] It may be for this reason that Nostalgia Night is such a success that it was made an official celebration by the Ministry of Tourism.[4]
History
On August 24, 1978, Pablo Lecueder, owner of CX-32 Radiomundo, organized a party with «old music hits», which was the theme of his radio show `` Old hits , Starting In 1978, every year Lecueder used the eve of the holiday August 25 (Declaration of Independence), a holiday in Uruguay, to make the party destined to remember and dance the ' ' old hits' 'with the original denomination, registered trademark, and National holiday called' 'The Night of Nostalgia' '.[5]
The idea of these first parties was to dance with the music of the late 1960s and early 1970s, which has lasted for its validity, its singers, its lyrics or its promotion. The themes of Queen, Simon and Garfunkel, Cat Stevens, The Beatles, Dire Straits, Supertramp, Elvis Presley, Barry Manilow, Bee Gees,and John Travolta are common--disco music, the new romantics , etc. From the first days of August, the radios broadcast those successes and spread the "old music" with those greats of the song. Over the years, themes from the 1980s of artists such as Mikko Mission, David Lime, Baltimora, Madonna, Tony Peret, Mike Platinas, etc., and [[1990 years] have been incorporated | ninety]], such as Technotronic, Snap, 2unlimited, etc; In the words of Lecueder, nostalgia begins 10 years after a song is published.
Over the years, several businessmen of the entertainment sector, friends, family, began to make other nostalgia parties. Quickly, the market and demand grew, and there were different parties for different audiences, with a wide range of prices, reunion parties, show dinners and even antinostalgia parties for those who want to go out that day and are not identified with the theme (especially public between 18 and 25 years old).
Today, this party has become a business, and is an important commercial focus in the entertainment environment, which gives work to restaurants, disco s, DJ's, waiters, companies of gastronomy, rental of infrastructure for parties, security services, lighting, amplification, transport, promoters and even lingerie houses and high-turnover hotels, with special promotions at night.
Together with the Christmas and New Year's Eve parties, the night of Nostalgia becomes one of the events that brings more people to parties. It is even considered that people at the end of the year parties are surpassed in movement, since on that day they usually leave both older and young, married and single, to remember old times and not so much, depending on the age. This party has so much convocation because August 25 is a national date in Uruguay and, therefore, is not working.
This party is held throughout Uruguay and in each department or city there are at least between 15 and 30 parties between private and public, all with full full.
References
- "Nostalgia Night playlist for 2016" (in Spanish). TV Show. 18 August 2016.
- "Past and present of Nostalgia Night" (in Spanish). Universia.edu.uy. 21 August 2017.
- "The invention of nostalgia" (in Spanish). La República. 24 August 2001. Retrieved 11 July 2013.
- "Ley Nº 17.825. Se denomina el 24 de agosto de cada año como la "Noche de la nostalgia"" (in Spanish). Uruguayan Parliament. Archived from the original on 14 August 2011. Retrieved 11 July 2013.
- The Republic (24 August 2001). "The invention of nostalgia". Uruguay. Retrieved August 21, 2011.