Tango - Sex and Rhythm of the City

Informationen zum Autor Mike Gonzalez is Emeritus Professor of Latin American Studies at Glasgow University and has written and lectured widely on Latin American culture and politics. Marianella Yanes is a Venezuelan writer! journalist and playwright who has written soap operas for a number of Latin American television channels and worked in theatre for many years. Klappentext Sets the history! music! key figures and the dance in its time and place and describes its evolution over the years. Zusammenfassung Chronicling the stories told through tango's lyrics! this book shows how the dance went from slumming it in the brothels and cabarets of lower-class Buenos Aires to the ballrooms of Paris! London! Berlin and beyond. Inhaltsverzeichnis Prologues 1 Strangers in the city 2 A city divided 3 Tango goes to paris 4 Tango finds its voice 5 Gardel and the golden age 6 The dying of the light 7 Astor piazzola and tango nuevo 8 The long road home Chronology References Discography and filmography Select bibliography Acknowledgements Photo acknowledgements Index

Product details

• Authors: Mike Gonzalez, Mike Yanes Gonzalez, Marianella Yanes
• Publisher: Reaktion Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.05.2013
• EAN: 9781780231075
• ISBN: 978-1-78023-107-5
• No. of pages: 224
• Series: Reverb; Reverb; Reverb (Reaktion Books)
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Music > General, dictionaries