Paraguayan polka Paraguayan polka Paraguayan polka, also known as Danza Paraguaya (Paraguayan dance), is a style of music created in Paraguay in the 19th century. The Paraguayan polka is very different from the traditional polka, mainly because the Paraguayan version combines ternary and binary rhythms, whereas the European only uses binary. The juxtaposition of the mentioned rhythms gives the peculiar sound that characterizes this style. There are several variants of the Paraguayan polka such as "polca syryry", "polca kyre'y", "polca popo", "polca saraki", "polca galopa", "polca jekutu". All of them are slightly different because of the different influences and styles adopted by
Polka in America, having won 18 out of the 24 Grammy Awards given for Grammy Award for Best Polka Album. "Polka Varieties" was an hour-long television program of polka music originating from Cleveland, Ohio. The show aired in several U.S. cities, and ran from 1956 until 1983. At that time, it was the only television program for this type of music in the US. (There were a number of polka shows originating from the Buffalo Niagara Region in the 1960s, including WKBW-TV's "Polka Time", which was hosted for its first half-year on air by Frankie Yankovic, and cross-border station CHCH-TV's "Polka