Tango Dance and Music

ISBN-13: 9781032194684 / Twarda / 2024 / 272 str.

Kendra Stepputat

Opis

This book investigates choreomusical aspects of tango argentino in translocal practice, in particular its current manifestation in Europe. It looks at it in its many facets: movement structures, sound structures, dancers and musicians, and the complex relations between these factors that all have their share in shaping the practice.

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Table of Contents

 

Acknowledgements

 

Introduction

Tango argentino: Dance, Music, and People – Musicality and Danceability – The Focus on Europe – Research Approach and Methods, Leading to the Structure of this Book

 

 

A Choreomusical Overview of tango argentino Development 1900-2020

Beginnings in Buenos Aires and Montevideo – Dissemination through Media – Connotations of Immorality – Reciprocation with Europe: The Way into High Society – The Reception of Tango in Argentina – From guardia nueva to época de oro – Decline under Economic and Political Pressure – The 1980s: Local and International Revival - The 1990s: renovación, tango nuevo and Translocal Establishment – Early Twenty-first Century: Back to the Roots, Reuniting Music and Dance – The State of Translocal Tango in the Early 2020s

 

Tango Music and its Danceability

 

Tango Musical Features

Melody – Harmony – Rhythm

 

Performance Practice

Instrumentation – The Art of Arranging – Interpretation in Performance

 

Tango Danceability

Danceability Definitions by Tango DJs and Tango Dance Teachers – Tango Danceability Online Survey – Tango Dance Experiment to Access Embodied Knowledge – Approaches to Danceability by Contemporary Tango Musicians

 

Aspects of Tango Music and its Danceability in a Nutshell

 

 

Tango Dance and its Musicality

 

Basic Movement Repertoire

Posture – Walking – Pivoting – The Giro

 

Dance Principles

Adornments – Stay Parallel To and On the Floor – Pauses – Connection and Communication – Lead and Follow Dialogues – Improvisation

 

Tango Dance Styles

Neotango – Estilo Milonguero – Tango de Salón

 

 

 

Movement Repertoire Motion Capture Analysis

Tango Forward Steps – Tango Backward Steps – Pivoting Technique: Dissociation in the ocho

 

Tango Musicality

Step Relation to the Beat – Becoming and Being a Musical Tango Dancer – Physical Interpretations of Musical Features: An Inventory

 

Tango Dance and its Musicality in a Nutshell

 

Tango Music-Dance Relations: Towards a Conclusion

Resumen en Español

 

Accompanying Material

Glossary

Index

 

O autorze

Kendra Stepputat is Associate Professor and currently Head of the Institute for Ethnomusicology, University of Music and Performing Arts Graz (KUG), Austria. She graduated in comparative musicology, Southeast Asian studies, and communication studies at Freie Universität and Humboldt Universität Berlin, and concluded her PhD and Habilitation at KUG. Her research topics include Balinese performing arts and tango argentino in European perspective. Her research focus is on choreomusical aspects of performing arts.