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12 - Encuentros Milongueros: Europe’s Twenty-First-Century Tango Dance Practice

from Part III - Tango Dance

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 March 2024

By
Kendra Stepputat
Edited by
Kristin Wendland  and
Kacey Link
Kristin Wendland
Affiliation:
Emory University, Atlanta
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Summary

Kendra Stepputat examines the choreomusical aspect of tango through an ethnographic lens in European countries. She focuses on one of the currently very popular tango social dance events in Europe called encuentros milongueros, paying particular attention to how these events, originally set up to mimic tango dance environments in Buenos Aires, have developed into translocal/contemporary tango music-dance practice that is particular to Europe. In doing so, she challenges the reader to rethink what it means to call tango a transnational art form, and how this definition is evolving.

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Encuentro milonguerosocial tango in Europetransnational tango
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The Cambridge Companion to Tango , pp. 204 - 220
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2024

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Further Reading

Benzekry Sabá, Gustavo. 2015. The Quest for the Embrace: The History of Tango Dance 1800–1983. Urquillo: Editorial Abrazos.Google Scholar
Carozzi, María Julia. Aquí se baila el tango: Una etnografía de las milongas porteñas. Buenos Aires: Siglo Veintiuno Editores, 2015.Google Scholar
Denniston, Christine. The Meaning of Tango: The Story of the Argentine Tango. London: Portico Books, 2007.Google Scholar
Kimmel, Michael. “A Cognitive Theory of Joint Improvisation: The Case of Tango Argentino.” In The Oxford Handbook of Improvisation in Dance edited by Vida, L. Midgelow, 563–591. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019.Google Scholar
Lavocah, Michael. Tango Stories: Musical Secrets. Norwich: Milonga Press, 2014.Google Scholar
Liska, Mercedes. “The Geopolitics of Queer Tango: From Buenos Aires to a Community of Translocal Practice.” In Made in Latin America: Studies in Popular Music, edited by Mendívil, Julio and Espinosa, Christian Spencer, 125–134. New York: Routledge, 2016.Google Scholar
Liska, Mercedes “Dancing in High Heels: A Material Culture Approach to Argentine Tango.” In Social Matter(s): Recent Approaches to Materiality, edited by Bampilis, Tryfon and Keurs, Pieter ter, 91–116. Münster: LIT Verlag, 2014.Google Scholar
Stepputat, Kendra. “Tango Musicality and Tango Danceability: Reconnecting Strategies in Current Cosmopolitan Tango Argentino Practice.” the world of music (new series) 9, no. 2 (2020): 51–68.Google Scholar
Stepputat, Kendra “Tango Journeys: Going on a Pilgrimage to Buenos Aires.” In Dance. Senses. Urban Contexts: Proceedings of the 29th Symposium of the ICTM Study Group on Ethnochoreology, edited by Stepputat, Kendra, 195–205. Aachen: Shaker Verlag, 2017.Google Scholar
Stepputat, Kendra, and Djebbari, Elina. “The Separation of Music and Dance in Translocal Contexts.” world of music (new series) 9, no. 2 (2020): 5–30.Google Scholar

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