ARGENTINE TANGO

By Jennifer Perkins

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”

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

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

INSTRUMENTS

Bandoneon

ESCUCHA

Listen to El Choclo here. Lyrics included!

VE

No sound but older footage of the dance

Sound & Dance – Enjoy!

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?

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

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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