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11 - Tango Lessons: What Research on Tango Dancing Can Teach Us

from Part III - Tango Dance

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 March 2024

By
Kathy Davis
Edited by
Kristin Wendland  and
Kacey Link
Kristin Wendland
Affiliation:
Emory University, Atlanta
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Summary

Sociologist and tango dancer Kathy Davis provides an ethnographic exploration of passion in tango dancers, and she illustrates how such passion is embodied, attached to strongly felt emotions, and implicated in biographical transformations. She argues that tango dancing offers a perfect site for understanding the importance of passion in ordinary people’s everyday lives, gender relations in late modernity, and the possibilities and pitfalls of transnational encounters in a globalizing world.

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Tango passiongender relationsembodied passiontango ethnographytransnational tango
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The Cambridge Companion to Tango , pp. 189 - 203
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2024

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Further Reading

Anzaldi, Franco Barrionuevo. “The New Tango Era in Buenos Aires: The Transformation of a Popular Culture into a Touristic ‘Experience Economy’.” Paper presented at the II ISA Forum of Sociology, Buenos Aires, August 1–4, 2012.Google Scholar
Appadurai, Arjun. Modernity at Large: Cultural Dimensions of Globalization. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1996.Google Scholar
Cara, Ana C. “Entangled Tangos: Passionate Displays, Intimate Dialogues.” Journal of American Folklore 122, no. 486 (Fall 2009): 438–465.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Carozzi, María Julia. “Light Women Dancing Tango: Gender Images as Allegories of Heterosexual Relationships.” Current Sociology 61, no. 1 (January 2013): 22–39.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Delgado, Celeste Fraser, and Esteban Muñoz, José. “Rebellions of Everynight Life.” In Everynight Life: Culture and Dance in Latin/o America, edited by Delgado, Celeste Fraser and Muñoz, José Esteban, 9–32. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1997.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Pelinski, Ramón Aldolfo. El tango nómade: ensayos sobre la diáspora del tango. Buenos Aires: Corregidor, 2000.Google Scholar
Pellarolo, Sirena. “Queering Tango: Glitches in the Hetero-National Matrix of a Liminal Cultural Production.” Theater Journal 60, no. 3 (October 2008): 409–431.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Savigliano, Marta E. Tango and the Political Economy of Passion. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1995.Google Scholar
Savigliano, Marta E. Angora Matta: Fatal Acts of North-South Translation. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2003.Google Scholar

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