Argentine tango!
In honor of the last blog of the semester, I’ll be covering Argentinian Tango! Specifically honoring their culture by discussing the history and musical aspects of this dance. The tango is a famous partner dance with powerful expression and improvisation between two close dancing partners. It sets a close connection and introspective movement to the room. To start, the origin of the word tango isn’t known. In fact, it seems to have some relation to the languages of Africa after the original popularization in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and Uruguay. Specifically the Rio de la Planta which is the official boarder between Argentina and Uraguay. The original style of tango was birthed in low-class port cities and districts where it was mostly practiced by slaves and those of the lower class. There was a period of time when this dance was banned from musical gatherings at which many of these “lower-class” participants would perform. It was often that the members of the upper class would ...
