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1 - A Brief History of Tango

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 March 2024

By
Omar García Brunelli  and
Laura Azcoaga
Edited by
Kristin Wendland  and
Kacey Link
Kristin Wendland
Affiliation:
Emory University, Atlanta
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Summary

Omar García Brunelli provides a solid historical overview of tango music, dance, and poetry. He first broadly lays out tango’s African, European, Argentine, and Uruguayan origins in the Río de la Plata region of South America, then focuses on the musical changes that took place through time. In doing so, García Brunelli highlights important contributors from tango’s guardia vieja (Old Guard), guardia nueva (New Guard), and Golden Age; discusses Piazzolla’s nuevo tango (New Tango); and brings his overview up to today by describing active contemporary tango musicians.

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Tango historyArgentinatango musicdancepoetry
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The Cambridge Companion to Tango , pp. 10 - 28
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2024

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Further Reading

Binda, Enrique, and Lamas, Hugo. El tango en la sociedad porteña 1880–1920. Buenos Aires: Héctor Lorenzo Lucci Ediciones, 1998.Google Scholar
Cuello, Inés. “La coreografía del tango.” In Antología del tango rioplatense: Vol. 1 Desde los orígenes hasta 1920, edited by Novati, Jorge, 4th edition edited by Brunelli, Omar García, 123–140. Buenos Aires: Instituto Nacional de Musicología “Carlos Vega,” 2018.Google Scholar
García Brunelli, Omar. “Bases para una aproximación razonable a la cuestión del componente afro del tango.” Revista Argentina de Musicología, 18 (2017): 91–124.Google Scholar
García Brunelli, Omar ed. El mudo del tango. Ocho estudios sobre Carlos Gardel. Buenos Aires: Instituto Nacional de Musicología “Carlos Vega,” 2020.Google Scholar
Kohan, Pablo et al. “Tango.” In Diccionario de la Música Española e Hispanoamericana, edited by Rodicio, Emilio Casares, Vol. 10, 143–154. Madrid: Sgae, 2002.Google Scholar
Novati, Jorge, ed. Antología del tango rioplatense: Vol. 1 Desde los orígenes hasta 1920. Buenos Aires: Instituto Nacional de Musicología “Carlos Vega,” 1980. Page references in this chapter are from the 4th edition edited by Omar García Brunelli, 2018.Google Scholar
Novati, Jorge “Aspectos Histórico-Musicales.” In Antología del Tango Rioplatense: Vol. 1 Desde sus comienzos hasta 1920, edited by Novati, Jorge, 4th edition edited by Brunelli, Omar García, 15–76. Buenos Aires: Instituto Nacional de Musicología, 2018.Google Scholar
Ruiz, Irma, and Ceñal, Néstor. “La estructura del tango.” In Antología del Tango Rioplatense Vol. 1: Desde sus comienzos hasta 1920, edited by Novati, Jorge, 4th edition edited by Brunelli, Omar García, 77–122. Buenos Aires: Instituto Nacional de Musicología, 2018.Google Scholar
Vilariño, Idea. Las letras del tango. Buenos Aires: Schapire, 1966.Google Scholar

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