[Tango-A] MISC: New book about tango

[ABRAZOS]

ABRAZOS is pleased to announce the publication of Tango Passion and the 
Rules of the Game by the Swedish sociologist and tango instructor Margareta 
Westergård.  This book has been translated by the author from the original, 
Tango i Buenos Aires - koder och passion, which was published in Sweden 
2009.

Tango Passion and the Rules of the Game describes the behavioural patterns 
and strict rules (códigos), at the traditional dance halls (milongas) of 
Buenos Aires. They constitute a frame around the tango, which in its unique 
embrace (el abrazo) is danced here with more devotion and passion than in 
any other tango environment in the world. Interspersed with the running text 
are the author’s personal diary notes from her intensive tango dancing 
sessions in Buenos Aires during the first decade of the twenty-first 
century.  These diary entries add immediacy, local colour, and capsule 
descriptions of the capricious life lived in the tango salons, where 
changing circumstances can produce both tears of disappointment and intense 
pleasure.

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sincerely

Daniel Canuti
ABRAZOS
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