The Tango in the United States: A HistoryMcFarland, 2010 M04 19 - 239 páginas In the earliest years of the 20th century, North American ballroom dancers favored the waltz or the polka. But then a new dance, the tango, broke onto the scene when Vernon and Irene Castle performed it in a Broadway musical. Rudolph Valentino, Arthur Murray, and Xavier Cugat popularized it in the 1920s and 1930s, and thousands of people crowded onto dance floors around the country to hear the music and dance the tango. This work chronicles the history of the tango in the United States, from its antecedents in Argentina, Paris and London to the present day. It covers the dancers, musicians, and composers, and the tango's influence on American music. |
Contenido
Introduction | 1 |
1 Antecedents of the Tango in the United States | 5 |
2 Some Historic Facts | 14 |
3 Argentineans in New York | 23 |
4 New York Tango Venues | 28 |
5 The Pros and Cons | 33 |
6 The Rise of the Castles | 41 |
The Key to Change | 53 |
14 Canaro Already Had His Orchestra | 112 |
15 Xavier Cugat Tango Rumba and Chihuahuas | 118 |
16 Carlos Gardel Enters the Arena | 128 |
17 More Argentineans in New York | 137 |
18 The Return of Juan Carlos Cobián | 149 |
19 World War II and Later | 156 |
20 The Big Surprises | 171 |
A Bandoneon Against the World | 180 |
8 The Tangos Influence on Other Popular Music | 59 |
9 Music with the Scent of Tango | 68 |
10 Tango Valentino | 75 |
11 The Orquesta Típica Select | 92 |
Pianist and Don Juan | 98 |
13 The Arthur Murray Studios | 107 |
22 The Compact Disk Revolution | 190 |
23 The American Musician and the Tango | 196 |
24 Final Considerations | 205 |
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