argentine tango
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ARGENTINE TANGO
By Jennifer Perkins
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HISTORY
Possible meanings of “tango”• May have African roots – “closed place”• Or could be derived from tanguere – “to touch”• Simply based on sound of drums – “tan-go”
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HISTORY
Buenos Aires was a combination of:• African, Spanish, Italian, British, Polish, Russian, and
Natives
Of COURSE the music and dance would blend too!
Music became a mixture of:• Milonga• Habanera
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HISTORY
The tango was first considered to be a dance of the lower class.
“Tango lyrics expressed the alienation of urban life”
-Nouzeilles & Montaldo p. 196
It could be found in:• academias – dance academies• Perigundines – bars/cáfes where waitresses could be
hired
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INSTRUMENTS
Bandoneon
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ESCUCHA
Listen to El Choclo here. Lyrics included!
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VE
No sound but older footage of the dance
Sound & Dance – Enjoy!
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PREGUTA
Watch this short clip - A Brief History of the Tango
Why do you think the history of this music (the poor, the brothels, etc.) did not prevent it from
catching on with the upper society and flourishing?
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REFERENCES
Nouzeilles, Gabriela, and Graciela R. Montaldo. The Argentina Reader: History, Culture, and Society. Durham: Duke UP, 2002. Print.
http://www.argentina-tango.com/history.htmhttp://www.edinburghtango.org.uk/tango/Historyoftang
o.phphttp://www.tejastango.com/tango_history.htmlhttp://www.tangoconcepts.com/history.html
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IMAGE CREDITS
http://tangoinprogress113.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/tango-axis.jpg
http://www.cb-pr.com/Images/REAFevent/ChristyCoteTangoArgentine.jpeg
http://www.todotango.com/spanish/las_obras/partitura.aspx?id=24
http://m5.paperblog.com/i/54/543471/tango-culture-in-buenos-aires-L-23dwFT.jpeg
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/41/Bandoneon-curved.jpg
http://www.todotango.com/spanish/creadores/images/gEsposito_org.jpg
http://www.todotango.com/spanish/creadores/images/gEsposito_org.jpg
http://wilmingtonrestore.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/Piano2.22.12.jpg
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