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14 - Nineteenth-Century Afro-Argentine Origins of Tango

from Part IV - Interdisciplinary Tango Studies

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 March 2024

By
Paulina L. Alberto
Edited by
Kristin Wendland  and
Kacey Link
Kristin Wendland
Affiliation:
Emory University, Atlanta
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Paulina L. Alberto uses original research about a multigeneration family of Black musicians to illustrate different stages of musical experimentation that fed into tango. In doing so, she sheds new light on the relationship between the Afro-Argentine musical and dance tradition of candombes and early tango, and she challenges the entrenched racial narrative of Afro-Argentine “disappearance” over the course of the nineteenth century.

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Tango and racecandombeRaúl Grigera
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The Cambridge Companion to Tango , pp. 245 - 263
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2024

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Alberto, Paulina L. Black Legend: The Many Lives of Raúl Grigera and the Power of Racial Storytelling in Argentina. New York and Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022.Google Scholar
Alberto, Paulina L., Geler, Lea, and Chisu Teresa, Ko. “‘In Defense of the People of Color of South America’: A New Source for Twentieth-Century Afro-Argentine History and Thought.” Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies, 2023. doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/17442222.2023.2246898.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Andrews, George Reid. The Afro-Argentines of Buenos Aires, 1800–1900. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1980.Google Scholar
Chasteen, John Charles. National Rhythms, African Roots: The Deep History of Latin American Popular Dance. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2004.Google Scholar
Frigerio, Alejandro. Cultura negra en el Cono Sur: representaciones en conflicto. Buenos Aires: Facultad de Ciencias Sociales y Económicas de la Universidad Católica Argentina, 2000.Google Scholar
Geler, Lea. Andares negros, caminos blancos: Afroporteños, Estado y Nación Argentina a fines de siglo XIX. Rosario: Prohistoria Ediciones/TEIAA, 2010.Google Scholar
Goldman, Gustavo. Lucamba: Herencia africana en el tango, 1870–1890. Montevideo: Perro Andaluz, 2008.Google Scholar
Karush, Matthew B. “Blackness in Argentina: Jazz, Tango and Race before Perón.” Past & Present 216, no. 1 (2012): 215–245.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Natale, Óscar. Buenos Aires, negros y tango. Buenos Aires: Peña Lillo, 1984.Google Scholar
Ortiz Oderigo, Néstor. Aspectos de la cultura africana en el Río de la Plata. Buenos Aires: Plus Ultra, 1974.Google Scholar
Thompson, Robert Farris. Tango: The Art History of Love. New York: Pantheon, 2005.Google Scholar

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