...Deborah Jakubs El tango entre dos Américas: La representación del tango en Estados Unidos, 1910–1939 . By Matallana Andrea . Literatura y Cultura . Raleigh, NC : Editorial A Contracorriente , 2013 . Notes. Bibliography. 151 pp. Paper , $18.00 . Copyright © 2014 by Duke...

...Karen Robert Intersecting Tango: Cultural Geographies of Buenos Aires, 1900 – 1930 . By Bergero Adriana . Translated by Young Richard . Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press , 2008 . Photographs. Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Index . x , 476 pp. Cloth , $60.00...

...George Reid Andrews Lucamba: Herencia africana en el tango, 1870 – 1890 . By Goldman Gustavo . Montevideo : Ediciones Perro Andaluz , 2008 . Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography . 252 pp. Paper . Copyright 2009 by Duke University Press 2009 The Uruguayan musicologist...

...Simon Collier Antropología del tango: los protagonistas . By Azzi María Susana . Buenos Aires : Ediciones de Olavarría , 1991 . 362 pp. Paper . Copyright 1992 by Duke University Press 1992 The interviews transcribed by the anthropologist María Susana Azzi in this book...

...Samuel Shapiro La historia del tango en París . By Cadícamo Enrique . Introduction by Castillo CÁtulo . Buenos Aires , 1975 . Ediciones Corregidor . Illustrations . Pp. 174 . Paper. Copyright 1977 by Duke University Press 1977 As Argentina continues to flounder...

...Deborah Jakubs Tango Lessons: Movement, Sound, Image, and Text in Contemporary Practice . Edited by Miller Marilyn G. . Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2014 . Photographs. Figures. Notes. Glossary. Bibliography. Index. x, 282 pp. Paper , $24.95 . Copyright © 2015 by Duke...

... of the period: the explosion of mass culture. Apart from some creative analyses of tango lyrics, historians have generally been content to cite the omnipresence of radios and movie theaters in the barrios as factors that encouraged the pursuit of upward mobility and weakened class consciousness. 4 Yet...

... traditions and incorporating elements from both. As such, these rhythms — Argentine and Uruguayan tango, Brazilian samba, Colombian cumbia, Cuban rumba and son, Dominican merengue and bachata, Puerto Rican bomba, plena, and salsa — are eloquent representations of the idea and practice of race mixture...

...–Madison in 1970, 1979, 1982, and 1985. It was at Madison that Collier wrote The Life, Music, and Times of Carlos Gardel (University of Pittsburgh Press, 1986). He collected tango records starting with his first visit to Latin America, and tango music became an enduring passion. He wrote numerous...

... that they took in Latin jazz are compared in a single chapter. Astor Piazzolla was a renowned bandoneonista , tango composer, and arranger whose innovative New Tango, infused with jazz and classical elements and reflecting his years in Europe and the United States, nonetheless echoed tango traditions while...

... touch on everything from tango lyrics and soccer chants in Argentina, to the criminology of “sexual deviance” in Mexico, to Puerto Rican literature in the United States. The resulting volume at once underscores the possibilities and the difficulties of such a vast project. One of the obvious...

... of national cultural identity in Latin America” (p. 1). Several of the essays, including two by Beezley, have this priority, yet seven authors make limited or no mention of opera, dealing instead with such diverse topics as Mexican radio, rock-influenced music in Cuba, tango and folk music in Argentina...

... with foreign genres commercially popularized through radio, records, and cinema. It included Argentine tangos, Mexican rancheras and boleros, North American fox-trot, and Cuban sones , rumbas, and congas. This música de moda was understood to be alien to the nation, aesthetically mediocre because of its...

... policy toward Cuba in the years following the Spanish-American War. At the risk of slighting the remaining papers, Sonia Alejandra López’s “Der erste tango in Paris: ein argentinischer kulturexport im frankreich der jahrundertwende” should be singled out. It is absolutely delightful and demonstrates...

... for the workers, they condemned different expressions of the 1920s mass culture such as the tango, even while they had strong connections to the outstanding tango writers Juan de Dios Filiberto and Enrique Santos Discépolo. That hostility toward mass culture explains their opposition to radicalism and Peronism...

...; La literatura: El naturalismo y los vanguardistas, Jorge Lafforgue; El nacimiento del tango, Eduardo Stilman; El centro, los barrios y el suburbio, James R. Scobie and Aurora Ravina de Luzzi; La arquitectura: El eclecticismo, Francisco J. Bullrich; La ciudad de masas, José Luis Romero; La...

... oligarquía, equidistancia política identificable en Guido y Torre Nilsson como un “pessimism about Argentina’s ability to break free of its political past” (62). Podalsky analiza un valioso arpegio de nuevas praxis e imaginarios: desde los hoteles de cita, pantalones para las mujeres, la decadencia del tango...

... comprehension of Peronismo. And the fans of Discépolo will surely be unhappy with the unimaginative translation of his tangos. Nevertheless, Argentine specialists will welcome this volume because it is focused on the 1930-1943 years and thus provides material heretofore scattered in a variety of sources. ...

...Joseph S. Tulchin Of greatest value in the book, in this reviewer’s opinion, are five separate, esoteric jewels: Simon Collier’s delightful essay on the English tango craze of 1913— 14; Glyn Williams’ sensitive story of the Welsh settlements in Patagonia; Oliver Marshall’s incisive account...

... America and the Caribbean . His main research interests lie in the field of Chilean history, especially in the nineteenth century. He has also worked intermittently on the history of the Argentine tango. frank griffith dawson is associated with the Research Centre for International Law at Cambridge...