Tango lessons : movement, sound, image, and text in contemporary practice / Marilyn G. Miller, ed.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Miller, Marilyn Grace, 1961- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Tango (Dance)--Social aspects--History.

Tango (Dance).

Tangos--History and criticism.

Tangos.

Tango (Dance)--Social aspects.

History.

Physical Description:

x, 282 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2014.

Summary:

From its earliest manifestations on the street corners of nineteenth-century Buenos Aires to its ascendancy as a global cultural form, tango has continually exceeded the confines of the dance floor or the music hall. In Tango Lessons, scholars from Latin America and the United States explore tango s enduring vitality. The interdisciplinary group of contributors-including specialists in dance, music, anthropology, linguistics, literature, film, and fine art-take up a broad range of topics. Among these are the productive tensions between tradition and experimentation in tango nuevo, representations of tango in film and contemporary art, and the role of tango in the imagination of Jorge Luis Borges. Taken together, the essays show that tango provides a kaleidoscopic perspective on Argentina's social, cultural, and intellectual history from the late nineteenth to the early twenty-first centuries. Book jacket.

Contents:

Lunfardo in tango : a way of speaking that defines a way of being / Oscar Conde

Borges, tango, and milonga / Alejandro Susti

Picturing tango / Marilyn G. Miller

Tango, politics, and the musical of exile / Antonio Gómez

The return of the tango in documentary film / Fernando Rosenberg

"Manejame como un auto" : Drive me like a car, or What's so new about tango nuevo? / Carolyn Merritt

Contemporary tango and the cultural politics of música popular / Morgan James Luker

Gotan Project's tango project / Esteban Buch.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780822355496

0822355493

9780822355663

0822355663

OCLC:

853435885