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9 - The Poetics of Golden Age Tango

from Part II - Tango Song

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 March 2024

By
Pablo Palomino
Edited by
Kristin Wendland  and
Kacey Link
Kristin Wendland
Affiliation:
Emory University, Atlanta
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Summary

Pablo Palomino analyzes broader cultural themes and aesthetic currents in lyrics from the tango’s Golden Age. He considers the historical context in which tango lyrics became a sentimental, philosophical, and aesthetic lens for several generations of listeners in Argentina and beyond through a unique mix of modernism and vernacular speech. He then examines the poetry around three central themes that emerged in the Golden Age: the urban space, the sociological and poetic issue of the relationship between love and self, and the modern experience itself.

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Tango Golden Age lyricsthemes in Golden Age tango poetrytango and literatureLundfardo
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The Cambridge Companion to Tango , pp. 154 - 170
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2024

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Further Reading

Archetti, Eduardo. Masculinities: Football, Polo, and the Tango in Argentina. New York: Berg, 1999.Google Scholar
Corradi, Juan. “How Many Did It Take to Tango? Voyages of Urban Culture in the Early 1900s.” In Outsider Art: Contesting Boundaries in Contemporary Culture, 194–214, 1997.Google Scholar
Francfort, Didier. “Le tango, passion allemande et européenne, 1920–1960.” In Littératures et musiques dans la mondialisation: XXe–XXIe siècles, edited by Fléchet, Anaïs and Lévy, Marie-Françoise. Paris: Publications de la Sorbonne, 2015.Google Scholar
Garramuño, Florencia. Modernidades primitivas: tango, samba y nación. Buenos Aires: Fondo de Cultura Económica, 2007. [Primitive Modernities: Tango, Samba, and Nation. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2011].Google Scholar
Ibarlucía, Ricardo. “La perspectiva del zorzal: Paul Celan y el ‘Tango de la muerte.’” Revista Latinoamericana de Filosofía 30, no. 2 (2004): 287–312.Google Scholar
Matallana, Andrea. Qué saben los pitucos: la experiencia del tango entre 1910 y 1940. Buenos Aires: Prometeo, 2008.Google Scholar
Nudler, Julio. Tango judío: del ghetto a la milonga. Buenos Aires: Editorial Sudamericana, 1998.Google Scholar
Salas, Horacio. El tango. Buenos Aires: Planeta, 1986.Google Scholar
Santamaría-Delgado, Carolina. “Tango’s Reterritorialization in Medellín: Gardel’s Myth and the Construction of a Tanguero Local Identity.” The Musical Quarterly 92, nos. 3–4 (September 21, 2009): 177–209.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Tallón, José Sebastián. El tango en sus etapas de música prohibida. Buenos Aires: Instituto Amigos del Libro Argentino, 1959.Google Scholar

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