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03333aam a2200373 i 4500 001 3DA905CAC17411E49647BAD4DAD10320 003 SILO 005 20150303010228 008 140725s2015 nyua b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2014028225 020 $a 0814760716 020 $a 9780814760710 020 $a 0814760295 020 $a 9780814760291 035 $a (OCoLC)876883330 040 $a DLC $e rda $b eng $c DLC $d YDX $d YDXCP $d BTCTA $d BDX $d CUI $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a GV1796.T3 $b D37 2015 082 00 $a 793.3/3 $2 23 084 $a SOC032000 $a PER003000 $a SOC032000 $2 bisacsh 100 1 $a Davis, Kathy, $d 1949- $e author. 245 10 $a Dancing tango : $b passionate encounters in a globalizing world / $c Kathy Davis. 264 1 $a New York : $b New York University Press, $c [2015] 300 $a x, 225 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 24 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 520 $a "Argentinean tango is a global phenomenon. Since its origin among immigrants from the slums of Buenos Aires and Montevideo, it has crossed and re-crossed many borders.Yet, never before has tango been danced by so many people and in so many different places as today. Argentinean tango is more than a specific music and style of dancing. It is also a cultural imaginary which embodies intense passion, hyper-heterosexuality, and dangerous exoticism. In the wake of its latest revival, tango has become both a cultural symbol of Argentinean national identity and a transnational cultural space in which a modest, yet growing number of dancers from different parts of the globe meet on the dance floor. Through interviews and ethnographical research in Amsterdam and Buenos Aires, Kathy Davis shows why a dance from another era and another place appeals to men and women from different parts of the world and what happens to them as they become caught up in the tango salon culture. She shows how they negotiate the ambivalences, contradictions, and hierarchies of gender, sexuality, and global relations of power between North and South in which Argentinean tango is - and has always been - embroiled. Davis also explores her uneasiness about her own passion for a dance which - when seen through the lens of contemporary critical feminist and postcolonial theories - seems, at best, odd, and, at worst, disreputable and even a bit shameful. She uses the disjuncture between the incorrect pleasures and complicated politics of dancing tango as a resource for exploring the workings of passion as experience, as performance, and as cultural discourse. She concludes that dancing tango should be viewed less as a love/hate embrace with colonial overtones than a passionate encounter across many different borders between dancers who share a desire for difference and a taste of the 'elsewhere.'Dancing Tango is a vivid, intriguing account of an important global cultural phenomenon"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Tango (Dance) $x Social aspects. 650 7 $a SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a PERFORMING ARTS / Dance / General. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies. $2 bisacsh 941 $a 2 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20191214013924.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20180502020436.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=3DA905CAC17411E49647BAD4DAD10320Initiate Another SILO Locator Search