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Tango Lessons: Movement, Sound, Image, and Text in Contemporary Practice
- Editor(s): Marilyn G. Miller
- Contributor(s): Marilyn G. Miller, Oscar Conde, Alejandro Susti, Antonio Gómez, Fernando Rosenberg, Carolyn Merritt, Michael James Luker, Esteban Buch
- Published: 2014
- Pages: 296
- Illustrations: 22 photographs, 2 figures
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- Acknowledgments
- Introduction / Marilyn G. Miller
- 1. Lunfardo in Tango: A Way of Speaking that Defines a Way of Being / Oscar Conde
- 2. Borges, Tango, and Milonga / Alejandro Susti
- 3. Picturing Tango / Marilyn G. Miller
- 4. Tango, Politics, and the Musical of Exile / Antonio Gómez
- 5. The Return of the Tango in Documentary Film / Fernando Rosenberg
- 6. "Manejame como un auto": Drive Me Like a Car, or What's So New about Tango Nuevo? / Carolyn Merritt
- 7. Contemporary Tango and the Cultural Politics of Música Popula / Morgan James Luker
- 8. Gotan Project's Tango Project / Esteban Buch
- Contributors and Translators
- Glossary
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index
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- Marilyn G. Miller
- Oscar Conde
- Alejandro Susti
- Antonio Gómez
- Fernando Rosenberg
- Carolyn Merritt
- Michael James Luker
- Esteban Buch
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"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
"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
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Description
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 century to the early twenty-first.
Contributors. Esteban Buch, Oscar Conde, Antonio Gómez, Morgan Luker, Carolyn Merritt, Marilyn G. Miller, Fernando Rosenberg, Alejandro Susti
About The Author(s)
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.