Tango Passion and the Rules of the Game - Softcover

Westerg�rd, Margareta

9783939871095: Tango Passion and the Rules of the Game

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ISBN 10: 3939871095 ISBN 13: 9783939871095

Verlag: ABRAZOS, 2011

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In this book, the strict rules, c�digos, and behavioural patterns at the traditional milongas (dance halls) of Buenos Aires are described. They constitute a frame around the tango, which in its unique embrace, el abrazo, is danced here with more devotion and passion than in any other tango environment in the world. Interspersed with the running text are the author’s personal diary notes from her intensive tango dancing sessions in Buenos Aires during the first decade of the twenty-first century. These diary entries add immediacy, local colour, and capsule descriptions of the capricious life lived in these tango salons, where circumstances can produce both tears of disappointment and intense pleasure.

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Margareta Westerg�rd is a sociologist based in Bj�rred, outside Malm�, at the southern tip of Sweden. She started studying tango in 1995 and began making trips to Buenos Aires in 2000. Since 2003, she has taught Argentine tango in the coastal town of Simrishamn in Southern Sweden.
Her published writings include Swedish translations of Sonia Abadi’s El bazar de los abrazos, Milongan―omfamningarnas basar (2003) and Graciela H. L�pez’s Secretos de una milonguera, En tangodanserskas hemligheter (2005). Among Margareta’s previous writings are poetry and prose published in three anthologies.
Earlier in her career, she served as secretary general of the Swedish branch of Children’s Fund, as personnel manager at a Volvo dealer in Malm�, and as a researcher both at the Institute for Social Research in Copenhagen, Denmark, and at the Department of Sociology at the University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.

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