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Record Nr.

UNINA9910265238303321

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Durham : , : Duke University Press, , 2013

ISBN

0-8223-7723-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (293 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

MillerMarilyn Grace <1961->

Disciplina

793.3/3

793.33

Soggetti

Tango (Dance) - Social aspects - History

Tangos - History and criticism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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.