Authors: Mike Gonzalez
Savigliano, Marta E.,
Tango and the Political Economy of Passion
(Boulder,
CA
, 1995)
Scobie, James,
Buenos Aires: Plaza to Suburb, 1870â1910
(New York, 1974)
Storm Roberts, John,
The Latin Tinge
(New York, 1999)
Taylor, Julie,
Paper Tangos
(Durham,
NC
, 2003)
â, âTango: Themes of Class and Nation',
Ethnomusicology
,
XX
/2 (May 1976), pp. 273â91
Turner, David,
A Passion for Tango
(Dingley, 2006)
Vardero, Arcángel Pascual,
El tango en la década de los 30
(California, 2011)
Watter, Richard, J.,
Politics and Urban Growth in Buenos Aires, 1910â42
(Cambridge, 1993)
Wilson, Jason,
Buenos Aires: A Cultural and Literary Companion
(Oxford, 1999)
Winter, Brian,
Long After Midnight at the Niño Bien: The Tango and Argentina
(London, 2008)
Zumballaga, C.,
Gardel
(Madrid, 1976)
DISCOGRAPHY AND FILMOGRAPHY
DISCOGRAPHY
There are close to 9,000
CDS
of tango music currently available, so this is a tiny selection. We have tried to offer a representative sample as the basis for a collection.
Rough Guide to Tango
, various artists, 2009, Proper, 1906063435, two-disc set
Rough Guide to Tango Nuevo
, various artists, 2008, Proper,
B
0002
LQUBK
Astor Piazolla The Soul of Tango: Greatest Hits
, 2000, Milan Records,
B
00004
NHEK
Astor Piazzolla, Jorge Calandrelli, Yo-Yo Ma, Antonio Agri,
Piazolla: Soul of the Tango
, 1997, Classical,
B
0000267
PD
Astor Piazzolla and the Kronos Quartet,
Piazolla: Five Tango Sensations
, 1991, Nonesuch,
B
000005
JOM
Adriana Varela,
Vuelve el Tango
, 2004, Nuevos Medios,
B
0000283
HP
Mi Buenos Aires Querido
, Carlos Gardel, Astor Piazzolla, Alberto Giunastera and Horacio Salgan, 1996, Teldec,
B
000000
S
97
Antologia Noble del Tango
, 2006, Yoyousa,
B
00
I
4
RRDZI
, 6 discs
AnÃbal Troilo,
Tango
â
Completes
, 2003, Magenta,
B
004213
GSG
, 2 discs
Glorias del Tango Series 1: Carlos Di Sarli
, 2003, Selasco,
B
000
VBDVIS
The Best of Carlos Gardel
, 1998,
EMI
,
B
000006
Q
60
Carlos Gardel,
Buenos Aires Tangos
, Music Brokers, 2008,
B
00
IAE
3
VIU
Le Tango à Paris 1907â1941
, various artists, 1999, Frémeaux & Asssociés,
B
000027
YA
5
Los Grandes del Tango
, Astor Piazzolla, Osvaldo Fresedo, Francisco Canaro, Miguel Calo, Florinda Sassone, AnÃbal Troilo, Alfredo Gobbi, Juan D'Arienzo, Julio de Caro
Tango Argentino
(The Original Cast Recording), 1999, Atlantic,
B
0000021
J
0
Bajofondo Tango Club
, 2004, Commercial Marketing,
B
0000
AKPNN
Tanghetto,
Hybrid Tango
, 2004, Constitution Music,
B
0009
SQ
430
Gotan Project,
La Revancha del Tango
, 2001,
XL
,
B
00005
QZH
2
The Beginners Guide to Tango
, 2004, Nascente,
NSBOX
0
I
0, 3 discs
Buenos Aires Tango Lunfardo
, 2008, Music Brokers,
B
001
A
17
K
68
Susana Rinaldi,
Milonga por Tantas Cosas
, 2005, Musicrama/Koch,
B
000
A
2
X
6
H
2
Los Grandes Clasicos Del Tango: Astor Piazzolla
, 2001, Blue Moon,
B
000058
E
46
FILMOGRAPHY
Tango Bar
, dir. John Reinhardt,
USA
, 1936
Last Tango in Paris
, dir. Bernardo Bertolucci, France/Italy, 1973
El Exilio de Gardel (Tangos)
dir. Fernando Solanas, France/Argentina, 1986
Tango Bar
, dir. Marcos Zurinaga, Argentina/Puerto Rico, 1988
Sur
, dir. Fernando Solanas, France/Argentina, 1990
Naked Tango
, dir. Leonard Schrader, Switzerland/Argentina/Japan/
USA
, 1991
Tango
, dir. Patrice Leconte, France, 1993
Scent of a Woman
, dir. Martin Brest,
USA
, 1993
The Tango Lesson
, dir. Sally Potter,
UK
/France/Argentina/Germany/Netherlands, 1997
Tango
, dir. Carlos Saura, Spain/Argentina, 1999
Assassination Tango
, dir. Robert Duvall,
USA
/Argentina, 2002
The Tango Dancer
, dir. Francis Xavier,
USA
, 2006
Valentina's Tango
, dir. Rogelio Lobato,
USA
, 2007
El café de los maestros
, dir. Miguel Kohan,
USA
/Brazil/
UK
/Argentina, 2008 (documentary)
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Our thanks for their help and support go to Gerardo Ballesteros, Galo Cerón, Paddy Cunneen, Ricardo y Jenny in Edinburgh, Shona and Alistair in Glasgow, Norma and José in Buenos Aires, Lourdes (Lula) Contreras, Néstor Tarasona in Mérida and very special thanks to Carlos Rivodó.
COPYRIGHT ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
The author and the publishers wish to express their thanks to the below sources for permission to reproduce copyright material:
âBalada Para Un Loco' (
FERRER
/
PIAZZOLLA
). Music by Astor Pantaleon Piazzolla and Horacio Ferrer. © Editorial Lagos (
SADAIC
), All Rights Administered by Warner Chappell Overseas Holdings Ltd. All Rights Reserved.
âCambalache'. Words and Music by Enrique Santos Discepolo. © Warner Chappell Music Argentina (
SADAIC
). All Rights Administered by Warner Chappell Overseas Holdings Ltd. All Rights Reserved.
âQue Vachache'. Words and Music by Enrique Santos Discepolo. © Warner Chappell Music Argentina (
SADAIC
). All Rights Administered by Warner Chappell Overseas Holdings Ltd. All Rights Reserved.
âYira Yira'. Words and Music by Enrique Santos Discepolo. © Warner Chappell Music Argentina (
SADAIC
). All Rights Administered by Warner Chappell Overseas Holdings Ltd. All Rights Reserved.
âAl mundo le falta un tornillo'. Words and Music by Enrique CadÃcamo and José MarÃa Aguilar. ©
SADAIC
, Buenos Aires, Argentina. All Rights Reserved.
âLa Puñalada'. Words and Music by Celedonio Flores and Pintin Castellanos. ©
SADAIC
, Buenos Aires, Argentina. All Rights Reserved.
âLunes'. Words and Music by Francisco Garcia Jimenez and José Luis Padula. ©
SADAIC
, Buenos Aires, Argentina. All Rights Reserved.
âMuchacho'. Words and Music by Celedonio Flores and Edgarto Donato. ©
SADAIC
, Buenos Aires, Argentina. All Rights Reserved.
âPan'. Words and Music by Celedonio Flores and Eduardo Pereyra. ©
SADAIC
, Buenos Aires, Argentina. All Rights Reserved.
âPero yo sé'. Words and Music by Azucena Maizani. ©
SADAIC
, Buenos Aires, Argentina. All Rights Reserved.
âSe va la vida'. Words and Music by Maria Luisa Carnelli and Edgardo Donato. ©
SADAIC
, Buenos Aires, Argentina. All Rights Reserved.
INDEX
academias 42, 45
Alberdi, Rafael 13
Anarchism 55, 58, 82, 83, 87, 88, 96, 145
Apache Dance 61, 62, 68
Aparicio, Julio 10
Armenonville, The 78, 84, 108
Arolas, Eduardo 72, 73, 90, 110
Arrabal 25, 28, 33, 34, 36, 45, 47, 49, 79, 91, 96, 99, 108
Avenida 5 de Mayo 23, 25, 40
Avenida 9 de Julio 137
âbacán' 29, 85, 91, 93
Bajofondo Tango Club 177
Baker, Josephine 66, 68
bandoneon 43, 51, 53, 71, 72, 92, 104, 109â12, 113
Bardi, Agustin 57
Bartok, Bela 164
Baudelaire 166, 167
Benedetti, Mario 173
Benjamin, Walter 39, 60
Berkeley, Busby 128
Black Bottom 77
âboludo' 29
Borges, Jorge Luis 27, 106
Boulanger, Nadia 159, 162
Brazil 16, 23, 136, 145
Britain 12, 13, 16, 22, 38, 144, 145, 172
brothels 25, 26, 28, 29, 31, 33, 34, 40, 58, 60, 61, 64, 72, 85, 88, 91, 110, 131, 137
Buenos Aires, districts
Avellaneda 41
Barracas 41
Barrio Norte 24, 34
Belgrano 24, 34, 106
Florida 24, 148
La Boca 24, 25, 40, 51, 64, 91
(Nueva) Pompeya 40, 51, 91, 158
Palermo 29, 58,
Burton, Gary 167, 175
cabecitas negras
139, 145, 152
Cabrujas, José Ignacio 116
CadÃcamo, Enrique 27, 128, 129
Café de los maestro
(dir. Salles) 180
Café de Paris 62
Café Royale 78
Café Tortoni 85
cafishio
27, 44
Cafrune, Jorge 152, 171, 175
cakewalk 67
Cámpora, Hector 169
Canaro, Francisco 35, 77, 104, 123, 180
Canaro, Juan 180
Carnelli, Maria Luisa 186
Caruso, J. A. 100, 102
Casa de Laura 41
Castillo, Cátulo 51, 90, 142, 158
Castle, Vernon and Irene 67, 71, 73, 74, 175
caudillos 18, 33
chacarera
32
chamame
157
Champs Elysées, Paris 39
Charleston 77
cholera 20
Civil Code of 1871 26, 40, 46
Cobian, Juan Carlos 115
cocaine 96
Cocoliche
44
Cocteau, Jean 66
Colombia 105
Communist Partyof Argentina 147, 151, 153
âcompadrito' 19, 28, 31,
32
, 33, 44, 48, 85, 93, 95, 98, 113, 158
confiterÃas
139, 158
Constitution of 1852 14
Contursi, Jose Maria 142
Contursi, Pascual 51, 88, 89, 90, 94, 95, 96, 99, 108, 109, 130
conventillo
24,
23
, 26, 34, 45, 47, 49, 77, 91, 93, 96, 130
Copes, Juan Carlos 175
Cordobazo
155
Corrientes province 13, 16
Corrientes Street 93, 137, 140, 161
Corsini, Ignacio 138
Cunninghame Graham, Robert 58, 70
D'Arienzo, Juan 139, 140
Dario, Ruben 167
De Caro, Julio 110, 124
death squads 170
Debussy, Claude 59, 164
década infame, la
136, 148
Del Carril, Hugo 150, 153
descamisados
145, 147, 149
Di Carli, Carlos 139
Diaghilev, Sergei Pavlovich 64
Dirty War, the 171, 173
Discépolo
see
Santos Discépolo
Discos Nacional 87, 88, 178
Don Segundo Sombra
65
Donato, Edgardo 137
Eastern Europe 20, 21, 22, 25
El Cachafaz (Ovidio José Blanquet) 53,
34
, 137, 175
El dia que me quieras
(film) 161
El dia que me quieras
(play) 116
El Velódromo (district) 53
Eleiza airport shootings 156
Elvino Vardaro Sextet 161
Evita (Peron) 137, 143,
143
, 147, 149, 150, 151, 152, 154, 169
Exhibition of African Art, Paris, in 1905 59
Exilio de Gardel: Tangos
167, 172, 173
Facundo
13, 14
Falcon, Ada 137
fashion and tango 69
Felix, Maria 105
Ferrer, Horacio 161, 164â7
Filiberto, Juan de Dios 123
Finland 177, 178
Fiorentino, Francisco 124, 140
Firpo, Roberto 78, 88, 123
Flores, Celedonio 30, 51, 86, 90, 109, 117, 142, 148, 149, 156, 157
Florida Street 42, 93, 106
Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
68, 76
Francini, Enrique Mario 159
Fresedo, Osvaldo 137, 139
Fujisawa, Ranko 180
Gálvez, Manuel 46, 58
GarcÃa, Charly 171
Gardel, Carlos 90, 94, 105â23,
107
, 125, 131, 136, 138, 149, 161, 173
GardelâRazzano duo 90, 108
Garnier, Louis 115
gauchos
14,
15
, 18, 20, 29, 31, 36, 41, 65, 73
Gieco, Leon 171, 175
Ginastera, Alberto 162
Glucksmann, Max 86, 87, 90, 178
Gobbi, Alfredo 140
Gobbi, Alfredo Eusebio 47, 63
Golden Age of tango 47, 57, 109, 111, 122, 139, 140, 150, 153, 173, 175, 180
Goñi, Orlando 161
Gonzalez Castillo, Jose 51, 53, 90
Gotan Project 177
GOU
(United Officers Group) 146
Goyeheneche, Roberto 98
Goyeneche, Roberto 124, 175
Great Universal Exhibition, Paris, of 1900 60â61
Greco, Vicente 57, 78, 87, 89
Grela, Roberto 159
Guardia Nueva 110, 158, 175
Güiraldes, Ricardo 65, 106
Don Segundo Sombra
65
âTango' 65
habanera
28
Harrod's 42, 93, 106
Hernández, José 17