[Tango-L] Tango Books

[Fantasia Sorenson]

Yes, Charles, I would like very much to know about your expanded list of
tango titles in Spanish.

I enjoyed your earlier post that recommended the Canaro memoir, etc. I would
love to have a list of a whole range of such books to pore through.

I looked for the Canaro memoir. Supposedly you can get a used one from
Amazon for about 50 bucks. I saw an Argentine ad for a bookstore in Buenos
Aires that had it for 50 pesos. I don't know if they ship it or not.

Do you have suggestions for hunting these titles down? I mean, other than
the obvious one of browsing in bookstores on Corrientes? I just don't have
that option at this time.

Thanks,
Fan

On Dec 3, 2007 6:06 PM, <Crrtango at aol.com> wrote:

> A few suggestions for historical/cultural tango books:
>
> Tango! by Simon Collier, Artemis Cooper, Maria Susanna Azzi and Richard
> Martin. A nice coffee-table book with lots of pictures, in four parts, one
> by each
> author. Published by Thames and Hudson, NY.
> It is still in print (paperback).
>
> Tango, The Art History of Love by Robert Farris Thompson. An excellent
> book
> on the history, with an emphasis on the African influence in early tango.
>
> Tango and the Political Economy of Passion   by Marta E. Savigliano.   As
> the
> title implies, this is heavy on capitalist theory, anthropology, feminist
> theory, etc. so it is more like a doctoral thesis than a book about the
> history
> of the music and the dance. Actually rather boring, depending on what you
> are
> looking for, but it should satisfy your need for intellectual musings.
>
> There are other good ones, but they are in Spanish. If interested, email
> me
> for those titles.
>
> cheers,
> Charles
>
>
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