¡Tango! by Simon Collier, Artemis Cooper (.ePUB)
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¡Tango!: The Dance, the Song, the Story by Simon Collier, Artemis Cooper, María Susana Azzi, and Richard Martin
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Overview: The tango is not a dance but an obsession. For the tanguero, it is as much a part of life as eating and sleeping. Erotic and passionate, haunting and melancholy, it involves not only the body but also the soul.
How did a dance born in the slums of nineteenth-century Buenos Aires, performed by pimp and prostitute, capture and recapture the popular imagination for over one hundred years to become at the end of the twentieth century no less than an international cult?
¡Tango! tells the entire, amazing, rags-to-riches story of this extraordinary dance, drawing on the expertise of four well-known tango authorities. Simon Collier traces the development of the tango from its roots in the mid-nineteenth century up to the 1920s and discusses its earliest dancers and musicians. Artemis Cooper recounts the astonishing upsurge of tangomania in Europe and North America in the 1910s, which began when Parisian high society fell under the spell of its sensuous and “immoral” rhythms. The Golden Age of the tango in Argentina, from 1920 to 1950, is covered by María Susana Azzi, who brings to life all the personalities — bandleaders, musicians, dancers and singers — who flourished in the tango’s glorious peak years. Lastly, Richard Martin tackles the critical question of the tango and machismo — Is it a dance in which the woman is subservient, dominant, or neither? — and discusses the immensely popular tango shows of recent years and the part the tango has played in film, theater and literature.
¡Tango! is illustrated with more than 250 photographs and drawings, including the sensational color photography of Ken Haas, recognized worldwide for his fidelity to the spirit of the dance. It will have instant appeal for all tango enthusiasts and students of dance and will intrigue and delight all those who are fascinated by this seemingly unstoppable phenomenon.
Genre: Non-Fiction > History
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