The Massification of the Tango: The Electronic Media, the Popular Theatre and the Cabaret from Contursi to Peron, 1917-1955.

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  • Author(s): Castro, Donald S.
  • Source:
    Studies in Latin American Popular Culture. 1999, Vol. 18, p93. 22p.
  • Additional Information
    • Subject Terms:
      TANGO (Dance); CONTURSI, Pascual, 1888-1932; CORSINI, Ignacio; DANCE
    • Subject Terms:
      ARGENTINA
    • Abstract:
      Focuses on how the tango became so associated with the definition of the Argentine persona through the massification of what was originally a cultural form limited to the urban poor and to criminality. Innacurate depiction of the tango in Hollywood films; Transition of the tango from dance to song; Roles of musician Pascual Contursi and Ignacio Corsini in popularizing tango.