Tango Passion

Author : Marta Savigliano
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2018-02-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780429976636

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Tango And The Political Economy Of Passion by Marta Savigliano Pdf

What is tango? Dance, music, and lyrics of course, but also a philosophy, a strategy, a commodity, even a disease. This book explores the politics of tango, tracing tango's travels from the brothels of Buenos Aires to the cabarets of Paris and the shako dansu clubs of Tokyo. The author is an Argentinean political theorist and a dance professor at the University of California at Riverside. She uses her ?tango tongue? to tell interwoven tales of sexuality, gender, race, class, and national identity. Along the way she unravels relations between machismo and colonialism, postmodernism and patriarchy, exoticism and commodification. In the end she arrives at a discourse on decolonization as intellectual ?unlearning.?Marta Savigliano's voice is highly personal and political. Her account is at once about the exoticization of tango and about her own fate as a Third World woman intellectual. A few sentences from the preface are indicative: ?Tango is my womb and my tongue, a trench where I can shelter and resist the colonial invitations to '`'universalism,'? a stubborn fatalist mood when technocrats and theorists offer optimistic and seriously revised versions of '`'alternatives' for the Third World, an opportunistic metaphor to talk about myself and my stories as a success' of the civilization-development-colonization of Am ca Latina, and a strategy to figure out through the history of the tango a hooked-up story of people like myself. Tango is my changing, resourceful source of identity. And because I am where I am?outside?tango hurts and comforts me: '`'Tango is a sad thought that can be danced.'?Savigliano employs the tools of ethnography, history, body-movement analysis, and political economy. Well illustrated with drawings and photos dating back to the 1880s, this book is highly readable, entertaining, and provocative. It is sure to be recognized as an important contribution in the fields of cultural studies, performance studies, decolonization, and women-of-color feminism.

Author : Kathy Davis
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2015-01-02
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780814760291

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Dancing Tango by Kathy Davis Pdf

Argentinean tango is a global phenomenon. Since its origin among immigrants from the slums of Buenos Aires and Montevideo, it has crossed and re-crossed many borders.Yet, never before has tango been danced by so many people and in so many different places as today. Argentinean tango is more than a specific music and style of dancing. It is also a cultural imaginary which embodies intense passion, hyper-heterosexuality, and dangerous exoticism. In the wake of its latest revival, tango has become both a cultural symbol of Argentinean national identity and a transnational cultural space in which a modest, yet growing number of dancers from different parts of the globe meet on the dance floor. Through interviews and ethnographical research in Amsterdam and Buenos Aires, Kathy Davis shows why a dance from another era and another place appeals to men and women from different parts of the world and what happens to them as they become caught up in the tango salon culture. She shows how they negotiate the ambivalences, contradictions, and hierarchies of gender, sexuality, and global relations of power between North and South in which Argentinean tango is—and has always been—embroiled. Davis also explores her uneasiness about her own passion for a dance which—when seen through the lens of contemporary critical feminist and postcolonial theories—seems, at best, odd, and, at worst, disreputable and even a bit shameful. She uses the disjuncture between the incorrect pleasures and complicated politics of dancing tango as a resource for exploring the workings of passion as experience, as performance, and as cultural discourse. She concludes that dancing tango should be viewed less as a love/hate embrace with colonial overtones than a passionate encounter across many different borders between dancers who share a desire for difference and a taste of the ‘elsewhere.’ Dancing Tango is a vivid, intriguing account of an important global cultural phenomenon.

Author : Margareta Westergård
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Buenos Aires (Argentina)
ISBN : 9876030930

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Tango Passion by Margareta Westergård Pdf

Author : Marta Savigliano
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2018-02-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780429965555

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Tango And The Political Economy Of Passion by Marta Savigliano Pdf

What is tango? Dance, music, and lyrics of course, but also a philosophy, a strategy, a commodity, even a disease. This book explores the politics of tango, tracing tango's travels from the brothels of Buenos Aires to the cabarets of Paris and the shako dansu clubs of Tokyo. The author is an Argentinean political theorist and a dance professor at the University of California at Riverside. She uses her ?tango tongue? to tell interwoven tales of sexuality, gender, race, class, and national identity. Along the way she unravels relations between machismo and colonialism, postmodernism and patriarchy, exoticism and commodification. In the end she arrives at a discourse on decolonization as intellectual ?unlearning.?Marta Savigliano's voice is highly personal and political. Her account is at once about the exoticization of tango and about her own fate as a Third World woman intellectual. A few sentences from the preface are indicative: ?Tango is my womb and my tongue, a trench where I can shelter and resist the colonial invitations to '`'universalism,'? a stubborn fatalist mood when technocrats and theorists offer optimistic and seriously revised versions of '`'alternatives' for the Third World, an opportunistic metaphor to talk about myself and my stories as a success' of the civilization-development-colonization of Am ca Latina, and a strategy to figure out through the history of the tango a hooked-up story of people like myself. Tango is my changing, resourceful source of identity. And because I am where I am?outside?tango hurts and comforts me: '`'Tango is a sad thought that can be danced.'?Savigliano employs the tools of ethnography, history, body-movement analysis, and political economy. Well illustrated with drawings and photos dating back to the 1880s, this book is highly readable, entertaining, and provocative. It is sure to be recognized as an important contribution in the fields of cultural studies, performance studies, decolonization, and women-of-color feminism.

Author : Ricardo Plazaola
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2014-11-16
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781312681996

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I Wanted to Dance - Carlos Gavito: Life, Passion and Tango by Ricardo Plazaola Pdf

CARLOS EDUARDO GAVITO (4/27/1943 - 7/1/2005) was born in La Plata, Argentina. He spent his youth in the barrio of Avellaneda (to the south of Greater Buenos Aires) and the rest of his life circling the globe. He traveled for more than forty years and visited more than ninety countries. He spoke English, Italian, French and Portuguese fluently and could make himself understood in German, Russian and Japanese. He was a universal man who took the tango from the barrio to the world. He began dancing not too long after he started to walk, and then there was no stopping him: tango, rock, folklore, Latin rhythms, swing. On stage and off, there was no dance he didn't try. Over the years, he searched for his own place in the dance world, and then his own tango: the absolutely unique style that brought him to fame. In the mid 90s, after being out of Argentina for many years, he gained international renown with the company of Forever Tango and word got back to Buenos Aires.

Author : David Turner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Tango (Dance)
ISBN : 095470830X

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A Passion for Tango by David Turner Pdf

Author : Kristin Wendland,Kacey Link
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2024-03-28
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781108982320

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The Cambridge Companion to Tango by Kristin Wendland,Kacey Link Pdf

Tango music rapidly became a global phenomenon as early as the beginning of the twentieth century, with about 30% of gramophone records made between 1903 and 1910 devoted to it. Its popularity declined between the 1950s and the 1980s but has since risen to new heights. This Companion offers twenty chapters from varying perspectives around music, dance, poetry, and interdisciplinary studies, including numerous visual and audio illustrations in print and on the accompanying webpages. Its multidisciplinary approach demonstrates how different disciplines intersect through performative, historical, ethnographic, sociological, political, and anthropological perspectives. These thematic continuities illuminate diverse international perspectives and highlight how the art form flourished in Argentina, Uruguay and abroad, while tracing its international and cultural impact over the last century. This book is an innovative resource for scholars and students of tango music, particularly those seeking a diverse international perspective on the subject.

Author : David Turner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2006-03-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0954708318

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Passion for Tango 2nd Ed by David Turner Pdf

Author : Kathy Davis
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2015-01-02
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780814760710

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Dancing Tango by Kathy Davis Pdf

Argentinean tango is a global phenomenon. Through interviews and ethnographical research in Amsterdam and Buenos Aires, Kathy Davis shows why a dance from another era and another place appeals to men and women from different parts of the world and how they become caught up in the tango salon culture.

Author : William Washabaugh
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2020-09-02
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781000324150

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The Passion of Music and Dance by William Washabaugh Pdf

The late nineteenth century witnessed the birth and popularization of a number of highly emotional musical styles that played on the eagerness of modern Europeans and Americans to toy with the limits of sanity and to taste the ecstasies of living on the edge. This absorbing book explores these popular, passionate musical styles -- which include flamenco, tango and rebetika -- and points out that they arose as well-intentioned intellectuals co-opted the emotional experiences most closely associated with women. In drawing those experiences out of female practice, they defined, objectified, and turned them into strategies of domination, the deepest impact of which was felt, ironically, by modern women.In bridging anthropology, sociology, cultural, media, body and gender studies, this book broadens the base of theory which has ignored the transnational world of Latin and Mediterranean popular culture and makes a powerful statement about the intersection of nationalism, sexuality, identity and authenticity.

Author : Karen Woodley,Martin Sotelano
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Dance
ISBN : 9781446724187

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Tango Therapy 2, Research and Practice by Karen Woodley,Martin Sotelano Pdf

Author : Sherril Dodds
Publisher : Oxford Handbooks
Page : 689 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2018-12-03
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780190639082

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The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Competition by Sherril Dodds Pdf

In the twenty-first century, values of competition underpin the free-market economy and aspirations of individual achievement shape the broader social world. Consequently, ideas of winning and losing, success and failure, judgment and worth, influence the dance that we see and do. Across stage, studio, street, and screen, economies of competition impact bodily aesthetics, choreographic strategies, and danced meanings. In formalized competitions, dancers are judged according to industry standards to accumulate social capital and financial gain. Within the capitalist economy, dancing bodies compete to win positions in prestigious companies, while choreographers hustle to secure funding and attract audiences. On the social dance floor, dancers participate in dance-offs that often include unspoken, but nevertheless complex, rules of bodily engagement. And the media attraction to the drama and spectacle of competition regularly plays out in reality television shows, film documentaries, and Hollywood cinema. Drawing upon a diverse collection of dances across history and geography, The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Competition asks how competition affects the presentation and experience of dance and, in response, how dancing bodies negotiate, critique, and resist the aesthetic and social structures of the competition paradigm.

Author : J.M. Jeffries
Publisher : Harlequin
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2017-03-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781488013560

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Love Tango by J.M. Jeffries Pdf

The rhythm of desire Former child star Roxanne Deveraux is stepping back into the spotlight. Tired of growing up in front of sitcom cameras, she left Hollywood and her controlling parents to finally follow her true passion, which exists offstage. Still, the offer to appear on Celebrity Dance is hard to resist—as is Nicholas Torres, her dance partner. He's creative, passionate, and they're growing more and more in sync—until family interference throws everything off balance. Nick had a hunch that Roxanne would prove a smash-hit contestant. But he's taken aback by her beauty, poise and his desire to partner with her off the dance floor. Watching her confidence and skill soar each week is a thrill. But as Roxanne's chaotic past resurfaces and a secret threatens to tear his own family apart, both must weigh old loyalties against the promise of a brilliant future together.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Red Dot Publications
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2024-07-01
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Best 75 Reverse-Engineered Starbucks Recipes by Anonim Pdf

Discover the secrets behind 75 iconic Starbucks recipes with "Best 75 Reverse-Engineered Starbucks Recipes." This book takes you on a captivating journey through meticulous research, trial, and error to decode and recreate Starbucks' closely guarded recipes. Each chapter unveils the dedication of the author, who combed the web and left no stone unturned to bring you the secrets behind Starbucks' beloved creations. From classics like the Caramel Macchiato to inventive treats like the Churro Frappuccino, this book guides you in recreating them at home. Whether you're a coffee enthusiast or simply curious about the art of coffee crafting, "Best 75 Reverse-Engineered Starbucks Recipes" immerses you in Starbucks' world, offering you the key to crafting their iconic drinks and the thrill of discovery. Classic Caramel Macchiato Hazelnut Frappuccino Mocha Cookie Crumble Frappuccino Cinnamon Dolce Latte Vanilla Bean Cream Frappuccino Iced Green Tea Lemonade Pumpkin Spice Latte Salted Caramel Hot Chocolate White Chocolate Mocha Java Chip Frappuccino Toffee Nut Latte Passion Tango Tea Lemonade Caramel Flan Latte Peppermint Mocha Chestnut Praline Latte Honey Almond Cold Brew Raspberry Swirl Pound Cake Blonde Roast Coffee Dark Roast Coffee Spinach & Feta Breakfast Wrap Caramel Apple Spice Iced Caramel Cloud Macchiato Cinnamon Roll Frappuccino Matcha Green Tea Latte Double Chocolate Chip Frappuccino Very Berry Hibiscus Refresher Smoked Butterscotch Latte Tiramisu Latte Eggnog Latte Mocha Coconut Frappuccino Nitro Cold Brew S'mores Frappuccino Guava Passionfruit Drink Blueberry Oat Cake Chestnut Praline Frappuccino London Fog Tea Latte Chai Crème Frappuccino Maple Pecan Latte Chocolate Croissant Cinnamon Shortbread Latte Honey Citrus Mint Tea Pistachio Latte Mocha Swirl Brioche Vanilla Sweet Cream Cold Brew Chocolate Dipped Madeleines Iced Golden Ginger Drink Roasted Ham & Swiss Panini White Chocolate Mocha Frappuccino Iced Pineapple Matcha Drink Lemon Loaf Cake Cascara Latte Irish Cream Cold Brew Dark Mocha Frappuccino Cold Foam Iced Espresso Coconut Milk Mocha Macchiato Caramel Brulée Frappuccino Strawberry Acai Refresher Iced White Tea Lemonade Spicy Chorizo Breakfast Wrap Toffee Almondmilk Hot Chocolate Nitro Cold Brew with Sweet Cream Green Tea Latte Cinnamon Swirl Coffee Cake Mango Dragonfruit Refresher Smoked Turkey & Swiss Panini Roasted Tomato & Mozzarella Panini Caramelized Honey Latte Iced Chocolate Almond Milk Shaken Espresso Double Chocolaty Chip Crème Frappuccino Vanilla Sweet Cream Cold Brew Pineapple Matcha Drink Chocolate Babka Gingerbread Latte Raspberry Swirl Pound Cake Blonde Vanilla Latte Lemon Chiffon Yogurt Loaf Caffè Americano Churro Frappuccino

Author : Anahí Viladrich
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2013-09-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780816599103

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More Than Two to Tango by Anahí Viladrich Pdf

The world of Argentine tango presents a glamorous façade of music and movement. Yet the immigrant artists whose livelihoods depend on the US tango industry receive little attention beyond their enigmatic public personas. More Than Two to Tango offers a detailed portrait of Argentine immigrants for whom tango is both an art form and a means of survival. Based on a highly visible group of performers within the almost hidden population of Argentines in the United States, More than Two to Tango addresses broader questions on the understudied role of informal webs in the entertainment field. Through the voices of both early generations of immigrants and the latest wave of newcomers, Anahí Viladrich explores how the dancers, musicians, and singers utilize their complex social networks to survive as artists and immigrants. She reveals a diverse community navigating issues of identity, class, and race as they struggle with practical concerns, such as the high cost of living in New York City and affordable health care. Argentina’s social history serves as the compelling backdrop for understanding the trajectory of tango performers, and Viladrich uses these foundations to explore their current unified front to keep tango as their own “authentic” expression. Yet social ties are no panacea for struggling immigrants. Even as More Than Two to Tango offers the notion that each person is truly conceived and transformed by their journeys around the globe, it challenges rosy portraits of Argentine tango artists by uncovering how their glamorous representations veil their difficulties to make ends meet in the global entertainment industry. In the end, the portrait of Argentine tango performers’ diverse career paths contributes to our larger understanding of who may attain the “American Dream,” and redefines what that means for tango artists.