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Book Tango Argentina Myths

    Book Details:
  • Author : Ervin Toudle
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2021-07-31
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 86 pages

Download or read book Tango Argentina Myths written by Ervin Toudle and published by . This book was released on 2021-07-31 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the years of its history (over 100 years, that is), no wonder Argentine tango accumulated a few stereotypes or even - and that's where it gets interesting - fairytales. There is a lot to say about tango, from the music, the dance, the history, and the culture that gave birth to it, but perhaps a good place to start is to talk about what tango isn't. This book is a history of the bad information about the origins and development of the Argentinean Tango.

Book Argentina s White Lies  Myths and the Tango  1700 1900

Download or read book Argentina s White Lies Myths and the Tango 1700 1900 written by Rodreguez King-Dorset and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Originals Of Tango Argentina

Download or read book The Originals Of Tango Argentina written by Florencio Hererra and published by . This book was released on 2021-07-31 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the years of its history (over 100 years, that is), no wonder Argentine tango accumulated a few stereotypes or even - and that's where it gets interesting - fairytales. There is a lot to say about tango, from the music, the dance, the history, and the culture that gave birth to it, but perhaps a good place to start is to talk about what tango isn't. This book is a history of the bad information about the origins and development of the Argentinean Tango.

Book The Myths about Tango  English

Download or read book The Myths about Tango English written by Mario Broeders and published by . This book was released on 2012-10-28 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history and evolution of the Argentinian Tango. With an introduction of José Gobello.

Book Tango of Death  The Creation of a Holocaust Legend

Download or read book Tango of Death The Creation of a Holocaust Legend written by Willem de Haan and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-10-24 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book traces the origins of the legend that Jewish musicians in concentration camps were forced to play a Tango of Death at the gas chambers and shows how in this legend the actual history is hidden, distorted, or even lost altogether.

Book Paper Tangos

    Book Details:
  • Author : Julie M. Taylor
  • Publisher : Duke University Press
  • Release : 1998
  • ISBN : 9780822321910
  • Pages : 174 pages

Download or read book Paper Tangos written by Julie M. Taylor and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In PAPER TANGOS, classically trained dancer and anthropologist Julie Taylor examines the poetics of the tango, while recounting a life lived crossing the borders of two distinct and complex cultures. Drawing parallels among the violence of the Argentine Junta, tango dancing, and her own life, Taylor weaves the line between engaging memoir and cultural critique. The book's design includes photographs on every page that form a flip-book sequence of a tango. 89 photos.

Book Tango Stories

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  • Author : Michael Lavocah
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2012
  • ISBN : 9780957327603
  • Pages : 224 pages

Download or read book Tango Stories written by Michael Lavocah and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Picturing Argentina  Myths  Movies  and the Peronist Vision

Download or read book Picturing Argentina Myths Movies and the Peronist Vision written by Currie K. Thompson and published by Cambria Press. This book was released on 2014-05-28 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although Juan Domingo Perón's central role in Argentine history and the need for an unbiased assessment of his impact on his nation's cinema are beyond dispute, the existing scholarship on the subject is limited. In recent decades Argentina has witnessed a revival of serious film study, some of which has focused on the nation's classical movies and, in one case, on Peronism. None of this work has been translated into English, however.This is the first English-language book that offers an extensive assessment of Argentine cinema during first Peronism. It is also the first study in any language that concentrates systematically on the evolution of social attitudes reflected in Argentine movies throughout those years and that assesses the period's impact on subsequent filmmaking activity. By analyzing popular Argentine movies from this time through the prism of myth-second-order communication systems that present historically developed customs and attitudes as natural-the book traces the filmic construction of gender, criminality, race, the family, sports, and the military. It identifies in movies the development and evolution of mindsets and attitudes that may be construed as "Peronist." By framing its consideration of films from the Perón years in the context of earlier and later ones, it demonstrates that this period accelerates-and sometimes registers backward-looking responses to-earlier progressive mythic shifts, and it traces the development in the 1950s of a critical mindset that comes to fruition in the "new cinema" of the 1960s. Picturing Argentina: Myths, Movies, and the Peronist Vision is an important book for Latin American studies, film studies, and history collections.

Book The Gods of Tango

    Book Details:
  • Author : Carolina De Robertis
  • Publisher : Vintage
  • Release : 2016-05-17
  • ISBN : 1101872853
  • Pages : 386 pages

Download or read book The Gods of Tango written by Carolina De Robertis and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2016-05-17 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of 2015 An NBC Latino Selection for Ten Great Latino Books Published in 2015 Arriving in Buenos Aires in 1913, with only a suitcase and her father’s cherished violin to her name, seventeen-year-old Leda is shocked to find that the husband she has travelled across an ocean to reach is dead. Unable to return home, alone, and on the brink of destitution, she finds herself seduced by the tango, the dance that underscores every aspect of life in her new city. Knowing that she can never play in public as a woman, Leda disguises herself as a young man to join a troupe of musicians. In the illicit, scandalous world of brothels and cabarets, the line between Leda and her disguise begins to blur, and forbidden longings that she has long kept suppressed are realized for the first time. Powerfully sensual, The Gods of Tango is an erotically charged story of music, passion, and the quest for an authentic life against the odds.

Book Argentina

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  • Author : Amy K. Kaminsky
  • Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
  • Release : 2008
  • ISBN : 0816649480
  • Pages : 303 pages

Download or read book Argentina written by Amy K. Kaminsky and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By the end of the twentieth century, Argentina's complex identity-tango and chimichurri, Eva Perón and the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo, the Falklands and the Dirty War, Jorge Luis Borges and Maradona, economic chaos and a memory of vast wealth-has become entrenched in the consciousness of the Western world. In this wide-ranging and at times poetic new work, Amy K. Kaminsky explores Argentina's unique national identity and the place it holds in the minds of those who live beyond its physical borders. To analyze the country's meaning in the global imagination, Kaminsky probes Argentina's presence in a broad range of literary texts from the United States, Poland, England, Western Europe, and Argentina itself, as well as internationally produced films, advertisements, and newspaper features. Kaminsky's examination reveals how Europe consumes an image of Argentina that acts as a pivot between the exotic and the familiar. Going beyond the idea of suffocating Eurocentrism as a theory of national identity, Kaminsky presents an original and vivid reading of national myths and realities that encapsulates the interplay among the many meanings of "Argentina" and its place in the world's imagination. Amy Kaminsky is professor of gender, women, and sexuality studies and global studies at the University of Minnesota and author of After Exile (Minnesota, 1999).

Book The Meaning Of Tango

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  • Author : Christine Denniston
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2024-11-21
  • ISBN : 9780008725068
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book The Meaning Of Tango written by Christine Denniston and published by . This book was released on 2024-11-21 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Passion of Carlos Gardel

Download or read book The Passion of Carlos Gardel written by Lazaro Droznes and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2010-07-26 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A singer impersonating Carlos Gardel, sings along with 3 guitar players the unforgettable tangos of LePera. Between tangos, the singers tells different tales related to the amazing life of Carlos Gardel, rendering a vivid image of the life arch of Gardel, of the argentine society at those times and the development of the tango in Argentina and all around the world. Each tango has a full translation to English for a full comprehension by English speaking readers.

Book The Tango Singer

    Book Details:
  • Author : Tomás Eloy Martínez
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
  • Release : 2014-07-31
  • ISBN : 1408857499
  • Pages : 188 pages

Download or read book The Tango Singer written by Tomás Eloy Martínez and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2014-07-31 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bruno Cadogan has flown from New York to Buenos Aires in search of the elusive and legendary Julio Martel, a tango singer whose voice has never been recorded yet is said to be so beautiful it is almost supernatural. Bruno is increasingly drawn to the mystery of Martel and his strange and evocative performances in a series of apparently arbitrary sites around the city. As Bruno tries to find Martel, he begins to untangle the story of the singer's life, and to believe that Martel's increasingly rare performances map a dark labyrinth of the city's past.

Book Eat Dance Love

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2015-10-22
  • ISBN : 9781518743085
  • Pages : 68 pages

Download or read book Eat Dance Love written by and published by . This book was released on 2015-10-22 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of travel stories and personal essays traces the author's burgeoning love of Argentine tango from accidental tanguera to living abroad in South America frequenting Buenos Aires' steamy dance halls and learning a thing or two about life and love, as well as enjoying Argentina's favored folk dance, el tango. Journey with the author through the bustling Porteno streets and tango dance parties, to her eating haunts, and beyond to places in her heart where tango culture has irrevocably taken up residence. A journalist who has long written about adventure and cultural travel the author brings a discerning traveler's eye to tango, the dance, the culture, the art and joy of it."

Book Sex and Sexuality in Latin America

Download or read book Sex and Sexuality in Latin America written by Daniel Balderston and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 1997-02 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Organized around three central themes - control and repression; the politics and culture of resistance; and sexual transgression as affirmation of marginalized identity - this intriguing collection will challenge and inform conceptions of Latin American sexuality.

Book Hades  Argentina

    Book Details:
  • Author : Daniel Loedel
  • Publisher : Penguin
  • Release : 2022-01-11
  • ISBN : 0593188659
  • Pages : 305 pages

Download or read book Hades Argentina written by Daniel Loedel and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2022-01-11 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: VCU CABELL FIRST NOVELIST AWARD FINALIST CENTER FOR FICTION FIRST NOVEL PRIZE LONGLIST “A debut novel as impressive as they come. Tough, wily, dreamlike.” —Seattle Times A decade after fleeing for his life, a man is pulled back to Argentina by an undying love. In 1976, Tomás Orilla is a medical student in Buenos Aires, where he has moved in hopes of reuniting with Isabel, a childhood crush. But the reckless passion that has long drawn him is leading Isabel ever deeper into the ranks of the insurgency fighting an increasingly oppressive regime. Tomás has always been willing to follow her anywhere, to do anything to prove himself. Yet what exactly is he proving, and at what cost to them both? It will be years before a summons back arrives for Tomás, now living as Thomas Shore in New York. It isn’t a homecoming that awaits him, however, so much as an odyssey into the past, an encounter with the ghosts that lurk there, and a reckoning with the fatal gap between who he has become and who he once aspired to be. Raising profound questions about the sometimes impossible choices we make in the name of love, Hades, Argentina is a gripping, ingeniously narrated literary debut.

Book The Cambridge Companion to Tango

Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Tango written by Kristin Wendland and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2024-04-30 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An innovative resource which shatters tango stereotypes to account for the genre's impact on arts, culture, and society around the world. Twenty chapters by North and South American, European, and Asian contributors, some publishing in English for the first time, collectively cover tango's history, culture, and performance practice.