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Tango Lessons
Movement, Sound, Image, and Text in Contemporary Practice
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Language:
English
Published/Copyright:
2014
About this book
Tango Lessons is an interdisciplinary collection of essays examining the many varied perspectives that tango provides on Argentina's social, cultural, and intellectual history from the late nineteenth century to the early twenty-first.
Author / Editor information
Marilyn G. Miller is Associate Professor of Spanish and Portuguese at Tulane University. She is the author of Rise and Fall of the Cosmic Race: The Cult of Mestizaje in Latin America.
Reviews
"Tango is unique in Argentine history. More than a national music and dance, it has been considered the defining icon of Buenos Aires and of Argentina's vibrant cultural history. Yet, despite its notoriety, scholarship on tango, especially in English, is surprisingly scant. Tango Lessons makes an important contribution by bringing together in one volume profoundly original essays investigating tango as a multifaceted cultural form."—Florencia Garramuño, author of Primitive Modernities: Tango, Samba, and Nation
"Until now, scholars have known little about the social, cultural, and economic aspects of contemporary tango. This collection brings tango scholarship up to date. Deeply involved in the contemporary tango scene, contributors convey a broad and timely appreciation of tango as a dance, a musical genre, a type of lyrical song, a historical archive, and a cultural form that is alive and evolving."—Arlene Dávila, author of Culture Works: Space, Value, and Mobility across the Neoliberal Americas
“This is a book to read carefully and to savor for each essay's distinctive take on the contemporary tango…. It is impossible in a brief review to do justice to such a varied collection of essays… [T]his is a solid and diverse collection, and the detailed and highly informative footnotes further embellish the essays. Even those readers who are well versed in tango history will learn a great deal from Tango Lessons.”
-- Deborah Jakubs Hispanic American Historical Review
"[T]he volume is to be commended for its consistent quality of prose and strength of analysis across contributions, especially given the international makeup and disciplinary diversity of the authors. The range of topics, methods, disciplinary perspectives, and regional voices provides a rich tapestry of content that in the hands of a lesser editor might suffer from a lack of coherence or conformity."
-- Joanna Bosse Ethnomusicology
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Frontmatter
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CONTENTS
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
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INTRODUCTION
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CHAPTER ONE Lunfardo in Tango: A Way of Speaking That Defines a Way of Being
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CHAPTER TWO Borges, Tango, and Milonga
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CHAPTER THREE Picturing Tango
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CHAPTER FOUR Tango, Politics, and the Musical of Exile
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CHAPTER FIVE The Return of the Tango in Documentary Film
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CHAPTER SIX “Manejame como un auto”. Drive Me Like a Car, or What’s So New about Tango Nuevo?
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CHAPTER SEVEN Contemporary Tango and the Cultural Politics of Música Popular
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CHAPTER EIGHT Gotan Project’s Tango Project
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GLOSSARY
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WORKS CITED
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CONTRIBUTORS AND TRANSLATORS
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INDEX
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Publishing information
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
eBook published on:
February 7, 2014
eBook ISBN:
9781478091332
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
Main content:
292
Other:
24 illustrations (incl. 18 in color)
eBook ISBN:
9781478091332
Audience(s) for this book
Professional and scholarly;
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BY-NC-ND 4.0
