Tango Lessons
TANGO LESSONS TANGO LESSONS MOVEMENT, SOUND, IMAGE, AND TEXT IN CONTEMPORARY PRACTICE MARILYN G. MILLER, EDITOR Duke University Press • Durham and London • 2014 © 2014 Duke University Press All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper ∞ Typeset in Arno and Univers by Copperline Book Services, Inc. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Tango lessons : movement, sound, image, and text in contemporary practice / Marilyn G. Miller, ed. pages cm Includes bibliographical references and index. isbn 978-0-8223-5549-6 (cloth : alk. paper) isbn 978-0-8223-5566-3 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Tango (Dance)— Social aspects — History. 2. Tangos — History and criticism. i. Miller, Marilyn Grace, 1961– gv1796.t3t3369 2013 793.3'3 — dc23 2013025657 Duke University Press gratefully acknowledges the support of Tulane University, which provided funds toward the publication of this book. FOR EDUARDO CONTENTS ix Acknowledgments 1 INTRODUCTION • MARILYN G. MILLER 33 CHAPTER ONE • OSCAR CONDE Lunfardo in Tango: A Way of Speaking That Defines a Way of Being 60 CHAPTER TWO • ALEJANDRO SUSTI Borges, Tango, and Milonga 82 CHAPTER THREE • MARILYN G. MILLER Picturing Tango 118 CHAPTER FOUR • ANTONIO GÓMEZ Tango, Politics, and the Musical of Exile 140 CHAPTER FIVE • FERNANDO ROSENBERG The Return of the Tango in Documentary Film 164 CHAPTER SIX • CAROLYN MERRITT “Manejame como un auto”: Drive Me Like a Car, or What’s So New about Tango Nuevo? 198 CHAPTER SEVEN • MORGAN JAMES LUKER Contemporary Tango and the Cultural Politics of Música Popular 220 CHAPTER EIGHT • ESTEBAN BUCH Gotan Project’s Tango Project 243 Glossary 247 Works Cited 267 Contributors and Translators 269 Index ACKNOWLEDGMENTS A great many colleagues and fellow tangueros in Argentina, Uruguay, the United States, and elsewhere were extraordinarily gracious in sharing their time, knowledge, resources, and personal histories during the gestation of this edited volume.
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