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18 - Tango, Emotion, and Transculturality in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries

from Part IV - Interdisciplinary Tango Studies

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 March 2024

By
Yuiko Asaba
Edited by
Kristin Wendland  and
Kacey Link
Kristin Wendland
Affiliation:
Emory University, Atlanta
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Summary

Ethnomusicologist Yuiko Asaba provides a solid global view of tango. She examines tango’s transnational dynamics with historical and ethnographic approaches, and embraces themes of affect and transculturality between Japan and Argentina.

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Tango ethnographytango in Japantransculturality in tango
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The Cambridge Companion to Tango , pp. 314 - 330
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2024

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Further Reading

Asaba, Yuiko. “‘Folds of the Heart’: Performing Life Experience, Emotion, and Empathy in Japanese Tango Music Culture.” Ethnomusicology Forum 28, no. 1 (2019): 45–65.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Tango in Japan: Cosmopolitanism Beyond the West. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, (forthcoming, 2025).Google Scholar
Asaba, Yuiko. “The Reception of Tango and the Creation of Its Authenticity in Twentieth Century Japan: A Study from the Perspective of ‘Internalized Modernity.’” (「20世紀日本におけるタンゴの受容と「本場」意識の形成 — 内面化されたモダニティという視点からの一考察」) Popular Music Studies (『ポピュラー音楽研究』) 24 (2020): 3–15.Google Scholar
Heinonen, Yrjö. “Globalisation, Hybridisation, and the Finnishness of the Finnish Tango.” Etnomusikologian vuosikirja 28 (2016): 1–36.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Howland, John. Between the Muses and the Masses: Symphonic Jazz, “Glorified” Entertainment, and the Rise of the American Musical Middlebrow, 1920–1944. Redwood City, CA: Stanford University Press, 2002.Google Scholar
Levine, Lawrence W. Highbrow Lowbrow: The Emergence of Cultural Hierarchy in America. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1988.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Moehn, Frederick. Contemporary Carioca: Technologies of Mixing in a Brazilian Music Scene. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2012.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Pearsall, Caroline. “Tango in Diaspora – An Argentine Abroad: An Examination of the Parisian Tango Music Community.” Master’s thesis, Royal Holloway, University of London, 2011.Google Scholar
Stokes, Martin. Republic of Love: Cultural Intimacy in Turkish Popular Music. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2010.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Willoughby, Heather. “The Sound of Han: P’ansori, Timbre and a Korean Ethos of Pain and Suffering.” Yearbook for Traditional Music 32 (2000): 17–30.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

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