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Accompanying Materials to Chapter 10:
Tango’s Journey from a Río de la Plata Dance to a Globalized Milonga
Christophe Apprill
WP 10.1. Milonga, Marseille, Catalans, 2018. Photo by Estelle Doehr. Used by permission.
WP 10.1. Milonga, Marseille, Catalans, 2018. Photo by Estelle Doehr. Used by permission.
WP 10.2. Milonga de la Rue du Tango, Parvis de Saint Charles, Marseille, 2016. Photo by Estelle Doehr. Used by permission.
Apprill, Christophe. “Des nuits à danser: passion ou décentrement?” In Tango sans frontiers, edited by France Joyal, 81–113. Québec, Presses de l’Université du Québec, 2010.
“L’hétérosexualité et les danses de couple.” In Hétéros: Discours, lieux, pratiques, edited by Catherine Deschamps, Laurent Gaissad, and Christelle Taraud, 97–108. Paris: Epel Éditions, 2009.
L’invention politique de la danse contemporaine. Forthcoming in 2024.
“Le plaisir de la danse: des représentations aux propriétés formelles.” In Tango, corps à corps culturel, edited by France Joyal, 99–117. Québec: Presses de l’Université du Québec, 2009.
“Les métamorphoses d’un havane noir et juteux…Comment la danse tango se fait ‘argentine.’” Volume!: La revue des musiques populaires 8, no. 1 (2011): 41–67.
Les mondes du bal. Nanterre: Presses universitaires de Paris Nanterre, 2018.
Slow. Désir et désillusion. Paris: L’Harmattan, 2021.
Sociologie des danses de couple. Une pratique entre résurgence et folklorisation. Paris: L’Harmattan, 2005.
Ayral, Sylvie and Yves Raibaud, eds. Pour en finir avec la fabrique des garçons. Bordeaux: Maison des sciences de l’Homme d’Aquitaine, 2014.
Bernand, Carmen. Histoire de Buenos Aires. Paris: Fayard, 1997.
Billard, François, and Didier Roussin. Histoires de l’accordéon. Paris: Climats, INA, 1991.
Borges, Jorge Luis. Evaristo Carriego. Paris: Editions du Seuil, 1969.
Bourdieu, Pierre. La domination masculine. Paris: Éditions du Seuil, 1998.
Bozon, Michel. “Les femmes et l’écart d’âge entre conjoints: une domination consentie, I. Types d’union et attentes en matière d’écart d’âge.” Population 45, no. 2 (1990): 327–360.
Castro, Donald S. The Argentine Tango as Social History (1880–1955): The Soul of the People. New York: Edwin Mellen Press, 1991.
Csikszentmihalyi, Mihalyi. Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience. New York: Harper & Row, 1990.
Daus, Roberto. “Homenaje a la Guardia vieja del tango. Banda municipal de la ciudad de Buenos Aires, 1908–1909.” El Bandoneón, CD 123.
Décoret-Ahiha, Anne. Les danses exotiques en France. Paris: Centre national de la danse, 2004.
Dumont, Gérard-François. “1492–2006. L’aventure démographique des Amériques.” Herodote.net: le media de l’histoire, 1996, accessed April 25, 2022, www.herodote.net/histoire/synthese.php?ID=55&ID_dossier=227.
Duras, Marguerite. Le ravissement de Lol V. Stein. Paris: Gallimard, 1964.
Frimat, François. “Danse avec le genre.” Cités 44 (2010): 77–89.
García Blaya, Ricardo. “Reflexiones sobre los origenes del tango.” Todotango. Accessed July 25, 2022, www.todotango.com/historias/cronica/103/Reflexiones-sobre-los-origenes-del-tango/.
Gasnault, François. “Les enjeux de la danse dans les réseaux ‘revivalistes’ français.” Recherches en danse: Danse(s) et politique(s), 4 (2015): 1–19. Online, accessed April 26, 2022, http://danse.revues.org/1185, doi: 10.4000/danse.1185.
Hess, Rémi. Le tango. Paris: Presses universitaires de France, 1996.
Heutte, Jean. “Mis en evidence du flow perçu par des étudiants au cours d’un travail collectif: l’homo sapiens retiolus est-il un épicurien de la connaissance?” Blog, accessed July 28, 2021, http://jean.heutte.free.fr/spip.php?article114.
Humbert, Béatrice. “Le tango à Paris de 1907 à 1920.” In Tango nomade, edited by Ramón Pelinski, 109–162. Montréal: Éditions Triptyque, 1995.
Illouz, Eva. La fin de l’amour. Enquête sur un désarroi contemporain. Paris: Seuil, 2020.
Laplanche, Jean and Jean-Bertrand Pontalis. Vocabulaire de la psychanalyse. Paris: Presses universitaires de France, 2007.
Le Moal, Philippe. Dictionnaire de la danse. Paris: Larousse/Bordas, 1999.
Liska, María Mercedes. Argentine Queer Tango: Dance and Sexuality Politics in Buenos Aires. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2017.
Lorrina, Niclas ed. La danse. Naissance d’un mouvement de pensée, ou le complexe de Cunningham. Paris: Armand Colin, 1989.
Louppe, Laurence. Poétique de la danse contemporaine. Bruxelles: Editions Contredanse, 1997.
Nahoum-Grappe, Véronique. “Le couple en piste.” In Danses latines et identité, d’une rive à l’autre…, edited by Elisabeth Dorier-Apprill, 191–212. Paris: L’Harmattan, 2000.
Oury, Jean. Création et schizophrénie. Paris: Galilée, 1989.
Passeron, Jean-Claude and Emmanuel Pedler. “Le temps donné au regard. Enquête sur la réception de la peinture.” Protée 27, no. 2 (1999): 93–116.
Pelinski, Ramón, editor. Tango nomade. Montréal: Éditions Triptyque, 1995.
Rouget, Gilbert. La musique et la transe. Esquisse d’une théorie générale de la relation de la musique et de la possession. Paris: Gallimard, 1980.
Salas, Horacio. Le tango. Arles: Actes sud, 1989.
Séguin, Madeleine. “Le tango et les jeux de représentations. Vers une déconstruction de son image stéréotypée et érotisée.” In Tango, corps à corps culturel, edited by France Joyal, 77–96. Québec: Presses de l’Université du Québec, 2009.
Walkowitz, Judit. “Sexualités dangereuses.” In Histoire des femmes. Le XIXème siècle, edited by George Duby and Michelle Perrot, 390–418. Paris: Plon, 1991.
Weber, Max. Économie et société. Paris: Plon, 1995.
Zubarik, Sabine. “Sublime Feelings: The Experience of ‘Flow’ in Dancing Tango,” paper presented at Tango: création, identification, circulation. Paris, 2011.
Apprill, Christophe. “Des nuits à danser: passion ou décentrement?” In Tango sans frontiers, edited by France Joyal, 81–113. Québec, Presses de l’Université du Québec, 2010.
“L’hétérosexualité et les danses de couple.” In Hétéros: Discours, lieux, pratiques, edited by Catherine Deschamps, Laurent Gaissad, and Christelle Taraud, 97–108. Paris: Epel Éditions, 2009.
L’invention politique de la danse contemporaine. Forthcoming in 2024.
“Le plaisir de la danse: des représentations aux propriétés formelles.” In Tango, corps à corps culturel, edited by France Joyal, 99–117. Québec: Presses de l’Université du Québec, 2009.
“Les métamorphoses d’un havane noir et juteux…Comment la danse tango se fait ‘argentine.’” Volume!: La revue des musiques populaires 8, no. 1 (2011): 41–67.
Les mondes du bal. Nanterre: Presses universitaires de Paris Nanterre, 2018.
Slow. Désir et désillusion. Paris: L’Harmattan, 2021.
Sociologie des danses de couple. Une pratique entre résurgence et folklorisation. Paris: L’Harmattan, 2005.
Ayral, Sylvie and Yves Raibaud, eds. Pour en finir avec la fabrique des garçons. Bordeaux: Maison des sciences de l’Homme d’Aquitaine, 2014.
Bernand, Carmen. Histoire de Buenos Aires. Paris: Fayard, 1997.
Billard, François, and Didier Roussin. Histoires de l’accordéon. Paris: Climats, INA, 1991.
Borges, Jorge Luis. Evaristo Carriego. Paris: Editions du Seuil, 1969.
Bourdieu, Pierre. La domination masculine. Paris: Éditions du Seuil, 1998.
Bozon, Michel. “Les femmes et l’écart d’âge entre conjoints: une domination consentie, I. Types d’union et attentes en matière d’écart d’âge.” Population 45, no. 2 (1990): 327–360.
Castro, Donald S. The Argentine Tango as Social History (1880–1955): The Soul of the People. New York: Edwin Mellen Press, 1991.
Csikszentmihalyi, Mihalyi. Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience. New York: Harper & Row, 1990.
Daus, Roberto. “Homenaje a la Guardia vieja del tango. Banda municipal de la ciudad de Buenos Aires, 1908–1909.” El Bandoneón, CD 123.
Décoret-Ahiha, Anne. Les danses exotiques en France. Paris: Centre national de la danse, 2004.
Dumont, Gérard-François. “1492–2006. L’aventure démographique des Amériques.” Herodote.net: le media de l’histoire, 1996, accessed April 25, 2022, www.herodote.net/histoire/synthese.php?ID=55&ID_dossier=227.
Duras, Marguerite. Le ravissement de Lol V. Stein. Paris: Gallimard, 1964.
Frimat, François. “Danse avec le genre.” Cités 44 (2010): 77–89.
García Blaya, Ricardo. “Reflexiones sobre los origenes del tango.” Todotango. Accessed July 25, 2022, www.todotango.com/historias/cronica/103/Reflexiones-sobre-los-origenes-del-tango/.
Gasnault, François. “Les enjeux de la danse dans les réseaux ‘revivalistes’ français.” Recherches en danse: Danse(s) et politique(s), 4 (2015): 1–19. Online, accessed April 26, 2022, http://danse.revues.org/1185, doi: 10.4000/danse.1185.
Hess, Rémi. Le tango. Paris: Presses universitaires de France, 1996.
Heutte, Jean. “Mis en evidence du flow perçu par des étudiants au cours d’un travail collectif: l’homo sapiens retiolus est-il un épicurien de la connaissance?” Blog, accessed July 28, 2021, http://jean.heutte.free.fr/spip.php?article114.
Humbert, Béatrice. “Le tango à Paris de 1907 à 1920.” In Tango nomade, edited by Ramón Pelinski, 109–162. Montréal: Éditions Triptyque, 1995.
Illouz, Eva. La fin de l’amour. Enquête sur un désarroi contemporain. Paris: Seuil, 2020.
Laplanche, Jean and Jean-Bertrand Pontalis. Vocabulaire de la psychanalyse. Paris: Presses universitaires de France, 2007.
Le Moal, Philippe. Dictionnaire de la danse. Paris: Larousse/Bordas, 1999.
Liska, María Mercedes. Argentine Queer Tango: Dance and Sexuality Politics in Buenos Aires. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2017.
Lorrina, Niclas ed. La danse. Naissance d’un mouvement de pensée, ou le complexe de Cunningham. Paris: Armand Colin, 1989.
Louppe, Laurence. Poétique de la danse contemporaine. Bruxelles: Editions Contredanse, 1997.
Nahoum-Grappe, Véronique. “Le couple en piste.” In Danses latines et identité, d’une rive à l’autre…, edited by Elisabeth Dorier-Apprill, 191–212. Paris: L’Harmattan, 2000.
Oury, Jean. Création et schizophrénie. Paris: Galilée, 1989.
Passeron, Jean-Claude and Emmanuel Pedler. “Le temps donné au regard. Enquête sur la réception de la peinture.” Protée 27, no. 2 (1999): 93–116.
Pelinski, Ramón, editor. Tango nomade. Montréal: Éditions Triptyque, 1995.
Rouget, Gilbert. La musique et la transe. Esquisse d’une théorie générale de la relation de la musique et de la possession. Paris: Gallimard, 1980.
Salas, Horacio. Le tango. Arles: Actes sud, 1989.
Séguin, Madeleine. “Le tango et les jeux de représentations. Vers une déconstruction de son image stéréotypée et érotisée.” In Tango, corps à corps culturel, edited by France Joyal, 77–96. Québec: Presses de l’Université du Québec, 2009.
Walkowitz, Judit. “Sexualités dangereuses.” In Histoire des femmes. Le XIXème siècle, edited by George Duby and Michelle Perrot, 390–418. Paris: Plon, 1991.
Weber, Max. Économie et société. Paris: Plon, 1995.
Zubarik, Sabine. “Sublime Feelings: The Experience of ‘Flow’ in Dancing Tango,” paper presented at Tango: création, identification, circulation. Paris, 2011.
Passion & Dance Research
Accompanying Materials to Chapter 11:
Tango Lessons: What Research on Tango Dancing Can Teach Us
Kathy Davis
WP 11.1. Cesar Coelho and Guillermina Quiroga dancing to “Tanguera” (Mariano Mores) in the show Tango Argentino (Claudio Segovia) at the Obelisco, Buenos Aires, February 19, 2011. Photo by Estrella Herrera. Used by permission from the Gobierno de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires from Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires, Argentina, CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
WP 11.1. Cesar Coelho and Guillermina Quiroga dancing to “Tanguera” (Mariano Mores) in the show Tango Argentino (Claudio Segovia) at the Obelisco, Buenos Aires, February 19, 2011. Photo by Estrella Herrera. Used by permission from the Gobierno de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires from Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires, Argentina, CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
WL 11.1. A light-hearted look at representations of tango in film history, “Top 10 Tango Dance Scenes in Movies,” MsMojo YouTube Channel.
WL 11.1. A light-hearted look at representations of tango in film history, “Top 10 Tango Dance Scenes in Movies,” MsMojo YouTube Channel.
Anderson, Benedict. Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism. London: Verso, 1983.
Anzaldi, Franco Barrionuevo. “The New Tango Era in Buenos Aires: The Transformation of a Popular Culture into a Touristic ‘Experience Economy’.” Paper presented at the II ISA Forum of Sociology, Buenos Aires, August 1–4, 2012.
Appadurai, Arjun. Modernity at Large: Cultural Dimensions of Globalization. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1996.
Archetti, Eduardo P. Masculinities: Football, Polo, and the Tango in Argentina. Oxford: Berg, 1999.
Bauman, Zygmunt. Liquid Love. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2003.
Benzecry, Claudio E. The Opera Fanatic: Ethnography of an Obsession. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2011.
Burawoy, Michael, Joseph A. Blum, Sheba George et al. Global Ethnography: Forces, Connections, and Imaginations in a Postmodern World. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000.
Cara, Ana C. “Entangled Tangos: Passionate Displays, Intimate Dialogues.” Journal of American Folklore 122, no. 486 (Fall 2009): 438–465.
Carozzi, María Julia. “Light Women Dancing Tango: Gender Images as Allegories of Heterosexual Relationships.” Current Sociology 61, no. 1 (January 2013): 22–39.
Davis, Kathy. Dancing Tango: Passionate Encounters in a Globalizing World. New York: New York University Press, 2015.
“Should a Feminist Dance Tango? The Experience and Politics of Passion.” Feminist Theory 16, no. 1 (March 2015): 3–21.
“From Transnational Biographies to Transnational Cultural Spaces.” In Handbuch Biografieforschung, edited by Helma Lutz, Martina Schiebel, and Elisabeth Tuider, 659–668. Wiesbaden: Springer Verlag, 2018.
Delgado, Celeste Fraser, and José Esteban Muñoz. “Rebellions of Everynight Life.” In Everynight Life: Culture and Dance in Latin/o America, edited by Celeste Fraser Delgado and José Esteban Muñoz, 9–32. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1997.
Doane, Randal. “The Habitus of Dancing: Notes on the Swing Dance Revival in New York City.” Journal of Contemporary Ethnography 35, no. 1 (August 2006): 84–116.
Hall, Cheryl. The Trouble with Passion: Political Theory Beyond the Reign of Reason. Abingdon: Routledge, 2005.
Illouz, Eva. Why Love Hurts: A Sociological Explanation. Cambridge: Polity, 2012.
Krüger, Janine. Cuál es tu Tango? Musikalische Lesarten der argentinischen Tangotradition. Münster: Waxmann, 2012.
Link, Kacey, and Kristin Wendland. Tracing Tangueros: Argentine Tango Instrumental Music. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016.
Liska, María Mercedes. “El cuerpo en la música: La propuesta del tango queer y su vinculación con el tango electrónico.” Boletin Onteaiken 8 (2009): 45–52.
Argentine Queer Tango: Dance and Sexuality Politics in Buenos Aires. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2016.
Luker, Morgan James. The Tango Machine: Musical Culture in the Age of Expediency. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2016.
Martell, Luke. The Sociology of Globalization, 2nd ed. Cambridge: Polity, 2017.
Ngai, Sianne. Ugly Feelings. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2005.
Pega, Bárbara Varassi. The Art of Tango. Abingdon: Routledge, 2021.
Pelinski, Ramón Aldolfo. El tango nómade: ensayos sobre la diáspora del tango. Buenos Aires: Corregidor, 2000.
Pellarolo, Sirena. “Queering Tango: Glitches in the Hetero-National Matrix of a Liminal Cultural Production.” Theater Journal 60, no. 3 (October 2008): 409–431.
Pratt, Mary Louise. Imperial Eyes. Travel Writing and Transculturation, 2nd ed. Abingdon: Routledge, 1992.
Saikin, Magali. Tango y Género. Stuttgart: Abrazos Books, 2004.
Salessi, Jorge. “Medics, Crooks, and Tango Queens: The National Appropriation of a Gay Tango.” In Everynight Life. Culture and Dance in Latin/o America, edited by Celeste Fraser Delgado and José Esteban Muñoz, 141–174. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2004.
Savigliano, Marta E. Tango and the Political Economy of Passion. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1995.
Angora Matta: Fatal Acts of North-South Translation. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2003.
“Notes on Tango (as) Queer (Commodity).” Anthropological Notebooks 16, no. 3 (2010): 135–143.
Taylor, Julie. Paper Tangos. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1998.
Thompson, Robert Farris. Tango: The Art History of Love. New York: Vintage Books, 2005.
Tobin, Jeffrey. “Models of Machismo: The Troublesome Masculinity of Argentine Male Tango Dancers.” In Tango in Translation: Tanz zwischen Medien, Kulturen, Kunst und Politik, edited by Gabriele Klein, 139–169. Bielefeld: Transcript Verlag, 2009.
Törnqvist, Maria. Tourism and the Globalization of Emotions: The Intimate Economy of Tango. Abingdon: Routledge, 2013.
Törnqvist, Maria, and Kate Hardy. “Taxi Dancers: Tango Labour and Commercialized Intimacy in Buenos Aires.” In New Sociologies of Sex Work, edited by Kate Hardy, Sarah Kingston, and Teela Sanders, 137–148. Farnham: Ashgate, 2010.
Vallerand, Robert J. “On the Psychology of Passion: In Search of What Makes People’s Lives Most Worth Living.” Canadian Psychology/Psychologie canadienne 49, no. 1 (February 2008): 1–13.
Viladrich, Anahí. “Neither Virgins nor Whores: Tango Lyrics and Gender Representations in the Tango World.” Journal of Popular Culture 39, no. 2 (April 2006): 272–293.
Villa, Paula-Irene. Sexy Bodies: Eine soziologische Reise durch den Geschlechtskörper. Opladen: Leske & Budrich, 2001.
“Bewegte Diskurse, die bewegen. Warum der Tango die (Geschlechter-) Verhältnisse zum Tanzen bringen kann.” In Körper Wissen Geschlecht, edited by Angelika Wetterer, 141–164. Sulzbach/Taunus: Ulrike Helmer Verlag, 2010.
Wacquant, Loïc. “Carnal Connections: On Embodiment, Apprenticeship, and Membership.” Qualitative Sociology 28, no. 4 (December 2005): 445–474.
Ylönen, Maarit E. “Bodily Flashes of Dancing Women: Dance as a Method of Inquiry,” Qualitative Inquiry 9, no. 4 (August 2003): 554–568.
Anderson, Benedict. Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism. London: Verso, 1983.
Anzaldi, Franco Barrionuevo. “The New Tango Era in Buenos Aires: The Transformation of a Popular Culture into a Touristic ‘Experience Economy’.” Paper presented at the II ISA Forum of Sociology, Buenos Aires, August 1–4, 2012.
Appadurai, Arjun. Modernity at Large: Cultural Dimensions of Globalization. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1996.
Archetti, Eduardo P. Masculinities: Football, Polo, and the Tango in Argentina. Oxford: Berg, 1999.
Bauman, Zygmunt. Liquid Love. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2003.
Benzecry, Claudio E. The Opera Fanatic: Ethnography of an Obsession. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2011.
Burawoy, Michael, Joseph A. Blum, Sheba George et al. Global Ethnography: Forces, Connections, and Imaginations in a Postmodern World. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000.
Cara, Ana C. “Entangled Tangos: Passionate Displays, Intimate Dialogues.” Journal of American Folklore 122, no. 486 (Fall 2009): 438–465.
Carozzi, María Julia. “Light Women Dancing Tango: Gender Images as Allegories of Heterosexual Relationships.” Current Sociology 61, no. 1 (January 2013): 22–39.
Davis, Kathy. Dancing Tango: Passionate Encounters in a Globalizing World. New York: New York University Press, 2015.
“Should a Feminist Dance Tango? The Experience and Politics of Passion.” Feminist Theory 16, no. 1 (March 2015): 3–21.
“From Transnational Biographies to Transnational Cultural Spaces.” In Handbuch Biografieforschung, edited by Helma Lutz, Martina Schiebel, and Elisabeth Tuider, 659–668. Wiesbaden: Springer Verlag, 2018.
Delgado, Celeste Fraser, and José Esteban Muñoz. “Rebellions of Everynight Life.” In Everynight Life: Culture and Dance in Latin/o America, edited by Celeste Fraser Delgado and José Esteban Muñoz, 9–32. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1997.
Doane, Randal. “The Habitus of Dancing: Notes on the Swing Dance Revival in New York City.” Journal of Contemporary Ethnography 35, no. 1 (August 2006): 84–116.
Hall, Cheryl. The Trouble with Passion: Political Theory Beyond the Reign of Reason. Abingdon: Routledge, 2005.
Illouz, Eva. Why Love Hurts: A Sociological Explanation. Cambridge: Polity, 2012.
Krüger, Janine. Cuál es tu Tango? Musikalische Lesarten der argentinischen Tangotradition. Münster: Waxmann, 2012.
Link, Kacey, and Kristin Wendland. Tracing Tangueros: Argentine Tango Instrumental Music. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016.
Liska, María Mercedes. “El cuerpo en la música: La propuesta del tango queer y su vinculación con el tango electrónico.” Boletin Onteaiken 8 (2009): 45–52.
Argentine Queer Tango: Dance and Sexuality Politics in Buenos Aires. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2016.
Luker, Morgan James. The Tango Machine: Musical Culture in the Age of Expediency. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2016.
Martell, Luke. The Sociology of Globalization, 2nd ed. Cambridge: Polity, 2017.
Ngai, Sianne. Ugly Feelings. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2005.
Pega, Bárbara Varassi. The Art of Tango. Abingdon: Routledge, 2021.
Pelinski, Ramón Aldolfo. El tango nómade: ensayos sobre la diáspora del tango. Buenos Aires: Corregidor, 2000.
Pellarolo, Sirena. “Queering Tango: Glitches in the Hetero-National Matrix of a Liminal Cultural Production.” Theater Journal 60, no. 3 (October 2008): 409–431.
Pratt, Mary Louise. Imperial Eyes. Travel Writing and Transculturation, 2nd ed. Abingdon: Routledge, 1992.
Saikin, Magali. Tango y Género. Stuttgart: Abrazos Books, 2004.
Salessi, Jorge. “Medics, Crooks, and Tango Queens: The National Appropriation of a Gay Tango.” In Everynight Life. Culture and Dance in Latin/o America, edited by Celeste Fraser Delgado and José Esteban Muñoz, 141–174. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2004.
Savigliano, Marta E. Tango and the Political Economy of Passion. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1995.
Angora Matta: Fatal Acts of North-South Translation. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2003.
“Notes on Tango (as) Queer (Commodity).” Anthropological Notebooks 16, no. 3 (2010): 135–143.
Taylor, Julie. Paper Tangos. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1998.
Thompson, Robert Farris. Tango: The Art History of Love. New York: Vintage Books, 2005.
Tobin, Jeffrey. “Models of Machismo: The Troublesome Masculinity of Argentine Male Tango Dancers.” In Tango in Translation: Tanz zwischen Medien, Kulturen, Kunst und Politik, edited by Gabriele Klein, 139–169. Bielefeld: Transcript Verlag, 2009.
Törnqvist, Maria. Tourism and the Globalization of Emotions: The Intimate Economy of Tango. Abingdon: Routledge, 2013.
Törnqvist, Maria, and Kate Hardy. “Taxi Dancers: Tango Labour and Commercialized Intimacy in Buenos Aires.” In New Sociologies of Sex Work, edited by Kate Hardy, Sarah Kingston, and Teela Sanders, 137–148. Farnham: Ashgate, 2010.
Vallerand, Robert J. “On the Psychology of Passion: In Search of What Makes People’s Lives Most Worth Living.” Canadian Psychology/Psychologie canadienne 49, no. 1 (February 2008): 1–13.
Viladrich, Anahí. “Neither Virgins nor Whores: Tango Lyrics and Gender Representations in the Tango World.” Journal of Popular Culture 39, no. 2 (April 2006): 272–293.
Villa, Paula-Irene. Sexy Bodies: Eine soziologische Reise durch den Geschlechtskörper. Opladen: Leske & Budrich, 2001.
“Bewegte Diskurse, die bewegen. Warum der Tango die (Geschlechter-) Verhältnisse zum Tanzen bringen kann.” In Körper Wissen Geschlecht, edited by Angelika Wetterer, 141–164. Sulzbach/Taunus: Ulrike Helmer Verlag, 2010.
Wacquant, Loïc. “Carnal Connections: On Embodiment, Apprenticeship, and Membership.” Qualitative Sociology 28, no. 4 (December 2005): 445–474.
Ylönen, Maarit E. “Bodily Flashes of Dancing Women: Dance as a Method of Inquiry,” Qualitative Inquiry 9, no. 4 (August 2003): 554–568.
Encuentros Milongueros
Accompanying Materials to Chapter 12:
Encuentros Milongueros: Europe’s Twenty-First-Century Tango Dance Practice
Kendra Stepputat
Baim, Jo. Tango: Creation of a Cultural Icon. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2007.
Benzecry Sabá, Gustavo. New Glossary of Tango Dance: Key Tango Argentino Dance Terms. Stuttgart: Abrazos, 2010.
Cara, Ana C. “Entangled Tangos: Passionate Displays, Intimate Dialogues.” The Journal of American Folklore 122, no. 486 (Fall 2009): 438–465.
Carozzi, María Julia. Aquí se baila el tango: Una etnografía de las milongas porteñas. Buenos Aires: Siglo Veintiuno Editores, 2015.
Davis, Kathy. Dancing Tango: Passionate Encounters in a Globalizing World. New York: New York University Press, 2015.
Denniston, Christine. The Meaning of Tango: The Story of the Argentine Tango. London: Portico Books, 2007.
Falcoff, Laura. “El Baile del Tango Ayer, Hoy y Mañana.” In El Tango Ayer Y Hoy, edited by Coriún Aharonián, 35–42. Montevideo: Banda Oriental, 2014.
Karush, Matthew B. Culture of Class: Radio and Cinema in the Making of a Divided Argentina, 1920–1946. Durham: Duke University Press, 2012.
Kicsi, Csongor. “The Impact of the Golden Age Period on the World of the Argentine Tango Community.” Bulletin of the Transilvania University of Braşov Series VIII: Performing Arts, 13 (62) no. 1 (2020): 107–116.
Kimmel, Michael. “A Cognitive Theory of Joint Improvisation: The Case of Tango Argentino.” In The Oxford Handbook of Improvisation in Dance edited by Vida L. Midgelow, 563–591. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019.
Krüger, Janine. ¿Cuál es tu tango? Musikalische Lesarten der argentinischen Tangotradition. Münster: Waxmann Verlag GmbH, 2012.
Lavocah, Michael. Tango Stories: Musical Secrets. Norwich: Milonga Press, 2014.
Link, Kacey, and Kristin Wendland. Tracing Tangueros: Argentine Tango Instrumental Music. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016.
Liska, Mercedes. “The Geopolitics of Queer Tango: From Buenos Aires to a Community of Translocal Practice.” In Made in Latin America: Studies in Popular Music, edited by Julio Mendívil and Christian Spencer Espinosa, 125–134. New York: Routledge, 2016.
Merritt, Carolyn. Tango Nuevo. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2012.
Pelinski, Ramón, ed. El Tango Nomade. Ensayos sobra la Diáspora del Tango. Buenos Aires: Corregidor, 2000.
Petridou, Elia. “Experiencing Tango as It Goes Global.” In Tango in Translation, edited by Gabriele Klein, 57–74. Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, 2009.
“Dancing in High Heels: A Material Culture Approach to Argentine Tango.” In Social Matter(s): Recent Approaches to Materiality, edited by Tryfon Bampilis and Pieter ter Keurs, 91–116. Münster: LIT Verlag, 2014.
Stepputat, Kendra. “Tango Musicality and Tango Danceability: Reconnecting Strategies in Current Cosmopolitan Tango Argentino Practice.” world of music (new series) 9, no. 2 (2020): 51–68.
“Tango Journeys. Going on a Pilgrimage to Buenos Aires.” In Dance. Senses. Urban Contexts: Proceedings of the 29th Symposium of the ICTM Study Group on Ethnochoreology, edited by Kendra Stepputat, 195–205. Aachen: Shaker Verlag, 2017.
Stepputat, Kendra, and Elina Djebbari. “The Separation of Music and Dance in Translocal Contexts.” world of music (new series) 9, no. 2 (2020): 5–30.
Stepputat, Kendra, Wolfgang Kienreich, and Christopher Dick. “Digital Methods in Intangible Cultural Heritage Research: A Case Study in Tango Argentino.” ACM Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage 12, no. 2 (2019): 1–23.
Tobin, Jeffrey. “Models of Machismo: The Troublesome Masculinity of Argentine Male Tango Dancers.” In Tango in Translation, edited by Gabriele Klein, 139–169. Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, 2009.
Baim, Jo. Tango: Creation of a Cultural Icon. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2007.
Benzecry Sabá, Gustavo. New Glossary of Tango Dance: Key Tango Argentino Dance Terms. Stuttgart: Abrazos, 2010.
Cara, Ana C. “Entangled Tangos: Passionate Displays, Intimate Dialogues.” The Journal of American Folklore 122, no. 486 (Fall 2009): 438–465.
Carozzi, María Julia. Aquí se baila el tango: Una etnografía de las milongas porteñas. Buenos Aires: Siglo Veintiuno Editores, 2015.
Davis, Kathy. Dancing Tango: Passionate Encounters in a Globalizing World. New York: New York University Press, 2015.
Denniston, Christine. The Meaning of Tango: The Story of the Argentine Tango. London: Portico Books, 2007.
Falcoff, Laura. “El Baile del Tango Ayer, Hoy y Mañana.” In El Tango Ayer Y Hoy, edited by Coriún Aharonián, 35–42. Montevideo: Banda Oriental, 2014.
Karush, Matthew B. Culture of Class: Radio and Cinema in the Making of a Divided Argentina, 1920–1946. Durham: Duke University Press, 2012.
Kicsi, Csongor. “The Impact of the Golden Age Period on the World of the Argentine Tango Community.” Bulletin of the Transilvania University of Braşov Series VIII: Performing Arts, 13 (62) no. 1 (2020): 107–116.
Kimmel, Michael. “A Cognitive Theory of Joint Improvisation: The Case of Tango Argentino.” In The Oxford Handbook of Improvisation in Dance edited by Vida L. Midgelow, 563–591. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019.
Krüger, Janine. ¿Cuál es tu tango? Musikalische Lesarten der argentinischen Tangotradition. Münster: Waxmann Verlag GmbH, 2012.
Lavocah, Michael. Tango Stories: Musical Secrets. Norwich: Milonga Press, 2014.
Link, Kacey, and Kristin Wendland. Tracing Tangueros: Argentine Tango Instrumental Music. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016.
Liska, Mercedes. “The Geopolitics of Queer Tango: From Buenos Aires to a Community of Translocal Practice.” In Made in Latin America: Studies in Popular Music, edited by Julio Mendívil and Christian Spencer Espinosa, 125–134. New York: Routledge, 2016.
Merritt, Carolyn. Tango Nuevo. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2012.
Pelinski, Ramón, ed. El Tango Nomade. Ensayos sobra la Diáspora del Tango. Buenos Aires: Corregidor, 2000.
Petridou, Elia. “Experiencing Tango as It Goes Global.” In Tango in Translation, edited by Gabriele Klein, 57–74. Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, 2009.
“Dancing in High Heels: A Material Culture Approach to Argentine Tango.” In Social Matter(s): Recent Approaches to Materiality, edited by Tryfon Bampilis and Pieter ter Keurs, 91–116. Münster: LIT Verlag, 2014.
Stepputat, Kendra. “Tango Musicality and Tango Danceability: Reconnecting Strategies in Current Cosmopolitan Tango Argentino Practice.” world of music (new series) 9, no. 2 (2020): 51–68.
“Tango Journeys. Going on a Pilgrimage to Buenos Aires.” In Dance. Senses. Urban Contexts: Proceedings of the 29th Symposium of the ICTM Study Group on Ethnochoreology, edited by Kendra Stepputat, 195–205. Aachen: Shaker Verlag, 2017.
Stepputat, Kendra, and Elina Djebbari. “The Separation of Music and Dance in Translocal Contexts.” world of music (new series) 9, no. 2 (2020): 5–30.
Stepputat, Kendra, Wolfgang Kienreich, and Christopher Dick. “Digital Methods in Intangible Cultural Heritage Research: A Case Study in Tango Argentino.” ACM Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage 12, no. 2 (2019): 1–23.
Tobin, Jeffrey. “Models of Machismo: The Troublesome Masculinity of Argentine Male Tango Dancers.” In Tango in Translation, edited by Gabriele Klein, 139–169. Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, 2009.
Dance’s Future
Accompanying Materials to Chapter 13:
Re-Imagining the Future of Tango Dance
Carolyn Merritt
WP 13.1. Soviet postcard from the 1920s. Unknown author, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tango_NEP_postcard_1920s.JPG\
WP 13.1. Soviet postcard from the 1920s. Unknown author, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tango_NEP_postcard_1920s.JPG\
Agunos, Misha. “Are You Actually Dancing Tango If You Aren’t Dismantling Systems of Oppression?” Oxygen Tango, June 10, 2021. www.oxygentango.com/blog/tangoandoppression.
Biss, Eula. On Immunity: An Inoculation. Minneapolis: Graywolf Press, 2014.
Del Mazo, Mariano, and Adrián D’Amore. Quien Me Quita Lo Bailado. Buenos Aires: Ediciones Corregidor, 2001.
Fabiano, Sharna. Lead and Follow: The Dance of Inspired Teamwork. Virginia Beach: Koehler Books, 2021.
Febos, Melissa. “Getting to No.” New York Times Magazine, April 4, 2021.
Kral, German. Un Tango Más. Culver City: Strand Releasing Home Video, 2016.
Londoño, Ernesto. “‘A Caricature of the Patriarchy’: Argentine Feminists Remake Tango.” New York Times, October 5, 2019. www.nytimes.com/2019/10/05/world/americas/argentina-tango-gender.html.
McGowan, Charis. “All-Women Argentina Tango Festival Calls for End to Machismo,” Al Jazeera, March 12, 2019. www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/3/12/all-women-argentina-tango-festival-calls-for-end-to-machismo.
McFadden, Kristina, and guests, “Racism, Inclusivity & Tango,” Tango Roundtable, June 7, 2020, www.facebook.com/kristina.mcfadden.73/videos/10159118443709316.
McMains, Juliet. “Rebellious Wallflowers and Queer Tangueras: The Rise of Female Leaders in Buenos Aires’ Tango Scene,” Dance Research 36, no. 2 (2018): 173–197.
Merritt, Carolyn. Tango Nuevo. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2012.
Rankine, Claudia. Citizen: An American Lyric. Minneapolis: Graywolf Press, 2014.
Rippon, Angela. “Vertical Expression of a Horizontal Desire.” Tango por dos (concert program). London: Sadler’s Wells, 1993.
Runyan, Christine. “What’s Happening in Our Nervous Systems?” Interview by Krista Tippett, On Being, March 18, 2021. https://onbeing.org/programs/christine-runyan-whats-happening-in-our-nervous-systems/.
SOTANGO.WORLD, “Earth Virtual Milonga,” accessed October 9, 2022. www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXwEd9lNokA.
Agunos, Misha. “Are You Actually Dancing Tango If You Aren’t Dismantling Systems of Oppression?” Oxygen Tango, June 10, 2021. www.oxygentango.com/blog/tangoandoppression.
Biss, Eula. On Immunity: An Inoculation. Minneapolis: Graywolf Press, 2014.
Del Mazo, Mariano, and Adrián D’Amore. Quien Me Quita Lo Bailado. Buenos Aires: Ediciones Corregidor, 2001.
Fabiano, Sharna. Lead and Follow: The Dance of Inspired Teamwork. Virginia Beach: Koehler Books, 2021.
Febos, Melissa. “Getting to No.” New York Times Magazine, April 4, 2021.
Kral, German. Un Tango Más. Culver City: Strand Releasing Home Video, 2016.
Londoño, Ernesto. “‘A Caricature of the Patriarchy’: Argentine Feminists Remake Tango.” New York Times, October 5, 2019. www.nytimes.com/2019/10/05/world/americas/argentina-tango-gender.html.
McGowan, Charis. “All-Women Argentina Tango Festival Calls for End to Machismo,” Al Jazeera, March 12, 2019. www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/3/12/all-women-argentina-tango-festival-calls-for-end-to-machismo.
McFadden, Kristina, and guests, “Racism, Inclusivity & Tango,” Tango Roundtable, June 7, 2020, www.facebook.com/kristina.mcfadden.73/videos/10159118443709316.
McMains, Juliet. “Rebellious Wallflowers and Queer Tangueras: The Rise of Female Leaders in Buenos Aires’ Tango Scene,” Dance Research 36, no. 2 (2018): 173–197.
Merritt, Carolyn. Tango Nuevo. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2012.
Rankine, Claudia. Citizen: An American Lyric. Minneapolis: Graywolf Press, 2014.
Rippon, Angela. “Vertical Expression of a Horizontal Desire.” Tango por dos (concert program). London: Sadler’s Wells, 1993.
Runyan, Christine. “What’s Happening in Our Nervous Systems?” Interview by Krista Tippett, On Being, March 18, 2021. https://onbeing.org/programs/christine-runyan-whats-happening-in-our-nervous-systems/.
SOTANGO.WORLD, “Earth Virtual Milonga,” accessed October 9, 2022. www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXwEd9lNokA.