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 tangos enduring vitality. The interdisciplinary group of contributorsmdash;including specialists in dance; music; anthropology; linguistics; literature; film; and fine artmdash;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 Argentinas social; cultural; and intellectual history from the late nineteenth to the early twenty-first centuries.Contributors. Esteban Buch; Oscar Conde; Antonio Goacute;mez; Morgan James Luker; Carolyn Merritt; Marilyn G. Miller; Fernando Rosenberg; Alejandro Susti
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