Agringado
Joan Acocella, 14 December 1995
¡Tango! The Dance, the Song, the Story
by Simon Collier, Artemis Cooper, María SusanaAzzi and Richard Martin.
Thames and Hudson, 208 pp., £24.95, October 1995,0 500 01671 2 Show More
by Simon Collier, Artemis Cooper, María SusanaAzzi and Richard Martin.
Thames and Hudson, 208 pp., £24.95, October 1995,
Rumba: Dance and Social Change in Contemporary Cuba
by Yvonne Daniel.
Open University, 196 pp., £27.50, August 1995,0 253 31605 7 Show More
by Yvonne Daniel.
Open University, 196 pp., £27.50, August 1995,
“... In France, we do it lying down,’ a French minister is reported to have said on first seeing the tango. He was not far wrong. The tango crystallised at the end of the 19th century in the brothels of Buenos Aires. It was a dance of prostitutes and pimps, and in its ineluctable rhythms, its belly-to-belly stance, its interlacing of legs, it reflected their professional concerns ... ”
