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16 - Mixed Messages: Tango and Argentine Politics

from Part IV - Interdisciplinary Tango Studies

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 March 2024

By
Matthew B. Karush
Edited by
Kristin Wendland  and
Kacey Link
Kristin Wendland
Affiliation:
Emory University, Atlanta
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Summary

Historian Matthew Karush delves into tango’s role in Argentina’s political and social history. He specifically analyzes how the art form functioned within Peronism and anti-Peronism of the mid-to-late half of the twentieth century as he seeks to understand how the tango is reflected in the political climate in Argentina through time and amid political upheaval.

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Tango during Perontango and politics
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The Cambridge Companion to Tango , pp. 281 - 297
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2024

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Further Reading

Archetti, Eduardo. Masculinities: Football, Polo, and the Tango in Argentina. Oxford: Berg, 1999.Google Scholar
Armus, Diego. “Tango, Gender, and Tuberculosis in Buenos Aires.” In Disease in the History of Modern Latin America, 101–129. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2003.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Cibotti, Ema. “El tango argentino como genuina expresión de las clases medias.” In Escritos sobre tango 2, edited by Lencina, Teresita, 91−107. Buenos Aires: Centro ‘feca, 2011.Google Scholar
Fischerman, Diego, and Gilbert, Abel. Piazzolla el mal entendido. Buenos Aires: Edhasa, 2009.Google Scholar
Gálvez, Eduardo. “El tango en su época de gloria: ni prostibulario, ni orillero: Los bailes en los clubes sociales y deportivos de Buenos Aires 1938–1959.” Nuevo Mundo, Mundos Nuevos (February 6, 2009). https://journals.openedition.org/nuevomundo/55183.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Karush, Matthew B. Culture of Class: Radio and Cinema in the Making of a Divided Argentina. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2012.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Liska, María Mercedes. “El arte de adecentar los sonidos: Huellas de las operaciones de normalización del tango argentino.” Latin American Music Review 35:1 (2014): 25–49.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
“La revitalización del baile social del tango en Buenos Aires: Neoliberalismo y cultura popular durante la década de 1990.” Ethnomusicology Review 18 (2013). https://ethnomusicologyreview.ucla.edu/journal/volume/18/piece/702.Google Scholar
Matamoro, Blas. La cuidad del tango: Tango histórico y Sociedad. Buenos Aires: Editorial Galerna, 1969.Google Scholar
Savigliano, Marta. Tango and the Political Economy of Passion. Boulder, CO: Westview, 1995.Google Scholar
Varela, Gustavo. Tango y política: sexo, moral burguesa y revolución en Argentina. Buenos Aires: Ariel, 2016.Google Scholar

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