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3 - Ángel Villoldo and Early Sound Recordings

from Part I - Tango Music

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 March 2024

By
Morgan James Luker
Edited by
Kristin Wendland  and
Kacey Link
Kristin Wendland
Affiliation:
Emory University, Atlanta
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Summary

Morgan James Luker examines tango through the early recorded sound industry, using archival recordings of tango artist Ángel Villoldo (1861–1919). Luker shows the reader how to move from the narrative-driven mode of “causal listening” to the object-driven mode of “matrix listening,” and so view individual recorded sound objects as things with agency. He illuminates our understanding of Villoldo as a case study.

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Ángel Villoldotango archival recordingslistening to tango
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The Cambridge Companion to Tango , pp. 50 - 66
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2024

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Further Reading

Brown, Bill. 2015. Other Things. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Cañardo, Marina. 2017. Fábricas de músicas: Comienzos de la industria discográfica en la Argentina (1919-1930). Buenos Aires: Gourmet Musical.Google Scholar
Denning, Michael. 2015. Noise Uprising: The Audiopolitics of a World Musical Revolution. New York: Verso.Google Scholar
Eidsheim, Nina Sun. 2019. The Race of Sound: Listening, Timbre, and Vocality in African American Music. Durham: Duke University Press.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Luker, Morgan James. 2022. “Matrix Listening; or, What and How We Can Learn from Historical Sound Recordings.” Ethnomusicology, Vol. 66, No. 2, pp. 290-318.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Possetti, Hernán. 2014. The Piano in Tango. Buenos Aires: Fondo Nacional de las Artes.Google Scholar
Rivadeneira, Tito. 2014. Ángel Villoldo en el inicio del tango y de los varietés. Buenos Aires: Editorial Dunken.Google Scholar
Silvers, Michael B. 2018. Voices of Drought: The Politics of Music and Environment in Northeastern Brazil. Champaign: University of Illinois Press.Google Scholar
Sterne, Johnathan. 2003. The Audible Past: Cultural Origins of Sound Reproduction. Durham: Duke University Press.Google Scholar
Suisman, David. 2009. Selling Sounds: The Commercial Revolution in American Music. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

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