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Books
Tango: the Art History of Love
by Robert Farris Thompson
ISBN 0-375-40931-9
Available on Amazon
‘If you've wondered why the famous Argentine dance of tango has attracted numerous jazz artists from Gerry Mulligan to Wynton Marsalis, this stunningly passionate and informative overview of tango will quickly offer insights. Robert Farris Thompson, a major writer on African art for the past three decades as well as a highly influential Yale professor, has perfected his writing about dance as art to the degree to which the blend of rigorous scholarship and dramatic imaginative reverie is unparalleled in writing about jazz or tango. This is simply the best written book about any music or dance…’
Norman Weinstein
‘Thompson performs a fascinating dissection of tango, picking apart its history with an enthusiast’s passion and a scholar’s authority. Pulling references from poetry, painting, and most potently from African dance, he shows us tango as an ecstatic manifestation of life’s emotional dynamics and inflames us with his reverence for the form.’
Mikhail Baryshnikov
The Golden Age of Tango: An Illustrated Compendium of Its History
by Horacio Ferrer
ISBN-10: 9509517704
Available on Amazon
This is a great reference book by Horacio Ferrer, who was the lyricist for Astor Piazzolla for a good number of years. He is currently one of the best tango scholars.
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