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List of contents
Introduction: Tango Studies Across Disciplinary and Geographic Boundaries Kristin Wendland and Kacey Link; 1. A Brief History of Tango Omar García Brunelli; Tango Music: 2. The Bandoneón: The Magical Sound and Soul of Tango Ortaç Ayd¿nölu; 3. Ángel Villoldo and Early Sound Recordings Morgan James Luker; 4. Orchestral Rhythmic Designs and Performance Practices: Juan D'Arienzo and Aníbal Troilo Ignacio Varchausky; 5. Guitar Heroes: Roberto Grela and Aníbal Arias Eric Johns; 6. Post-Golden Age Pillars: Horacio Salgán and Astor Piazzolla Kristin Wendland and Kacey Link; 7. Tango and Jazz: Cross-Genre Relations in History and Practice Julián Graciano; Tango Song: 8. Audacious Women: Profiles of Early Cancionistas Romina Dezillio; 9. The Poetics of Golden-Age Tango Pablo Palomino; Tango Dance: 10. Tango's Journey from a Río de la Plata Dance to a Globalized Milonga Christophe Apprill; 11. Tango Lessons: What Research on Tango Dancing Can Teach Us Kathy Davis; 12. Encuentros Milongueros: Europe's Twenty-First Century Tango Dance Practice Kendra Stepputat; 13. Re-Imagining the Future of Tango Dance Carolyn Merritt; Interdisciplinary Tango Studies: 14. Nineteenth-Century Afro-Argentine Origins of Tango Paulina L. Alberto; 15. Synthesizing Analyses: A Choreomusical Study of 'La cumparsita' Rebecca Simpson-Litke; 16. Mixed Messages: Tango and Argentine Politics Matthew B. Karush; 17. (Trans)national Visions: Tango Onscreen Rielle Navitski; 18. Tango, Emotion, and Transculturality in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries Yuiko Asaba; 19. Tango Studies Abroad: Gustavo Beytelmann and Codarts University Bárbara Varassi Pega; 20. Tango and Healing: A Clinical Research Perspective Madeleine E. Hackney and J. Lucas McKay; Epilogue: Carrying Tango Studies into the Future Kristin Wendland and Kacey Link; Appendix: Tango Chronology; Index.
About the author
Kristin Wendland is Professor of Teaching in the Department of Music at Emory University. With her research partner Kacey Link, she has co-authored and published Tracing Tangueros: Argentine Tango Instrumental Music (2016), and articles for Chamber Music Magazine (2018), Naxos Musicology (2020), and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra (2021).Kacey Link is an independent scholar and pianist residing in Los Angeles. With her research partner Kristin Wendland, she has co-authored and published Tracing Tangueros: Argentine Tango Instrumental Music (2016), and articles for Chamber Music Magazine (2018), Naxos Musicology (2020), and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra (2021).
Summary
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.
