Tango lessons : movement, sound, image, and text in contemporary practice /
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&#...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Durham :
Duke University Press,
2014
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| Series: | Knowledge Unlatched Select 2017 (on order)
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| 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. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (x, 282 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 1306802865 9781306802864 9780822377238 0822377233 0822355493 9780822355496 9781478091332 1478091339 |