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Tango, The Art History of Love
by Robert Farris Thompson
- HISTORY
- 2006
- PAPER
- 384 PAGES
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A probing cultural history of the tango, its working class origins in 19th-century Buenos Aires and Afro-Argentine roots. Thompson, an art historian at Yale, looks also at the depiction of the tango in literature, music, and dance. He covers singer Carlos Gardel, composer Astor Piazzolla and other personalities in the history of the tango. Illustrated.
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