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	Tango music - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Tango has long been a major part of the music of Argentina and Uruguay, and is well-known across much of the world, along with the associated tango dance.
		The "Golden Age" of tango music and dance is generally agreed to have been the period from about 1935 to 1952, roughly contemporaneous with the big band era in the United States.
		Kevin Johansen is another new tango artist who has a number of songs that combine folkloric and pop music with a milonga rhythm in such a way that it is barely unrecognizable until trying to dance tango to the music.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tango_music (1489 words)

	ontango
		Argentine tango is said to be an ultimate expression of a man and a woman with total attention focused on one another.
		Although stage tango is a part of the tango culture, it is not generally danced in a social sense.
		The first is that American tango was born in Paris around the turn of the century, and the steps were defined in order to "cleanse the vulgarities out of tango," which was very popular during the Golden age of tango (ca 1900-1940).
	www.musc.edu /BCMB/stillway/dancepages/ontango.htm (785 words)

	Argentine Tango Dancing and Instruction in Washington, DC
		The "Neo Tangos" that the aforementioned groups have produced are hybrids of traditional instrumentation and electronic sound, artistically bridging the gap between the Golden Age and the new millenium.
		Tango dancing is proving to be a natural match with the majority of musical genres found in today's mainstream dance clubs.
		Tango has benefited immensely from the influence of salsa and swing vocabulary, and underarm turns, spins, and changes of arms provide rich material for this next evolution of social dance.
	www.neotango.com /ar-neotango.html (1393 words)

	Tango and the legacy of Astor Piazzolla
		The "Golden Age" of tango music and dance is generally agreed to have been the period from about 1930 to 1945, roughly contemporaneous with the big band era in the United States.
		The later age of tango has been dominated by Astor Piazzolla, who became famous after appearing in Carlos Gardel's El dia que me quieras was released.
		In Piazzolla's hands, tango was no longer strictly a dance music; his compositions borrowed from jazz and classical forms, creating a whole new harmonic and rhythmic vocabulary made for the concert hall more than the ballroom (which was dubbed "nuevo tango").
	www.travel-amazing-southamerica.com /tango.html (2677 words)

	Argentine tango classes lessons san diego
		Tango is the cultural expression of the Rio de la Plata, which includes Buenos Aires, Rosario and Montevideo.
		Further, the early tangos not only represented a kind of sexual choreography, but often a duel, a man-to-man combat between challengers for the favors of a woman, that usually ended in the symbolic death of an opponent.
		Tango was reigning supreme in the cabarets and theatres frequented by the rich.
	www.tangoconcepts.com /history.html (2460 words)

	AllAboutTango.com - Complete Argentine Tango History Guide (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Buenos Aires and tango are synonymous terms, and tango is an integral part of the large city.
		The history of the Argentine Tango, from tango's humble beginnings to its latest developments, is part of the grand history of Buenos Aires.
		Traditional tango was maintained by the old guard led by the singer Roberto 'Polaco' Goyeneche and the pianist Osvaldo Pugliese.
	www.allabouttango.com /history.htm (1025 words)

	Tango music
		Early tango was the street music of immigrants.
		Tango soon became the first of many Latin dance crazes to gain popularity in Europe, beginning in France.
		The "Golden Age" of tango music and dance is generally agreed to have been the period from about 1930 to 1945, roughly contemporaneous with the
	www.mp3.fm /Tango_music.htm (1017 words)

	World Arts West : San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival : Dancers : Tango
		Tango was birthed in the slums and bordellos of the immigrant-infused port city Buenos Aires.
		The 1940s, spawned the Golden Age of Tango, as great composers, lyricists, singers and dancers achieved international reputations and lay the foundation to the modern-day tango form.
		Thus tango has influences that can be traced to the waltz, polka and mazurka, as well as the Spanish-cuban habanera and African candomble.
	www.worldartswest.org /edf/dancers/tango_SolisHahn.html (295 words)

	LoCurto's Dancesport Center - Argentine Tango (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		This embrace of the Argentine tango by European high society was very instrumental in Argentine society's willingness to bring the dance into its homes and salons.
		The Golden Age of Tango began in the 1920's when the most famous singer in Argentina, Carlos Gardel, began singing tangos.
		This golden age ended in the 1940's but in more recent times interest in the tango has been renewed by the popularity of shows such as "Tango Argentina" and "Tango Por Dos".
	www.locurtosballroom.com /Tango.html (224 words)

	Tango in Argentina (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		While in modern Argentina tango is associated mostly with a type of music, the rest of the world sees tango as a dramatic, indeed sexy, dance.
		Shunned by respectable society, the tango was considered to be extremely vulgar.
		The most famous tango singer and composer was Carlos Gardel (pictured at right); his work began "the Golden Age of Tango," which lasted until the 1950s.
	www.history.emory.edu /LatAm/arg/tango.html (210 words)

	Post-Golden-Age Music
		These recordings were made later that the golden age, but retain many of the sensibilities of recordings made during the golden age or earlier.
		The Los Reyes del Tango orchestra was founded in June 1992 to play the golden-age music of the late maestro Juan D'arienzo from the golden era of tango.
		Some of the tango music recorded shortly after the golden age of tango took the route of playing classics from the golden age but with a fuller, lush and overblown orchestration.
	www.tejastango.com /post-golden-age.html (1980 words)

	Music Collection for Social Dancing
		Most of the tango music used for social dance was recorded by the major orchestras that played during the golden age of tango, which extended from the late 1930s through the early 1950s.
		Recordings of new tango or from the transition to new tango are of better fidelity than most recordings from the golden age, but most of the arrangements are less suitable for social dancing.
		The tangos of the early golden age represent a transition from the old guard to the golden age of tango.
	www.tejastango.com /tango_music_collection.html (11790 words)

	Workshops and Lectures (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		A survey of the major artists spanning 90 years of recorded tango, from the early style to the contemporary innovators.
		Starting with the major musical influences in Piazzolla's evolution (De Caro, Gobbi, Pugliese) and surveying his original approach to tango writing in the 1940's, through the groundbreaking compositions of the 1950's and the consolidation of his style with the 1960's quintets.
		Historical overview of the Golden Age of tango.
	www.avantango.com /Pages/wkshps.html (289 words)

	About Argentine Tango (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The tango dance arose in these seedy waterfront areas from this turbulent mix, becoming a "mating dance" between barmaids and their customers in shady nightclubs.
		While the original tango was disturbing to many arbiters of good taste, a heavily sanitized version of tango found its way into the European and American dance academies, where it remains a fixture in ballroom competitions today.
		The tango dance became the courtship ritual of the middle class.
	www.danceoftheheart.com /about_tango.htm (750 words)

	Argentine Tango Dance History
		The Tango Habanera was an amalgamation of the Habanera and the Tango Andaluz or Tango Flamenco.
		The rhythm of the guitars playing the Tango flamenco or andaluz could not be reproduced in orchestra instruments and with the piano, so the Tango andaluz or flamenco was modified with the habanera rhythm.
		The Tango Habanera was heard in 1883 but died towards the end of the century.
	www.centralhome.com /ballroomcountry/argentino_tango.htm (614 words)

	Welcome to Glovertango
		Drawing on arrangements from the Golden Age of Tango, the group combines faithful renditions of early 20th century tangos, milongas, and waltzes with original compositions in the classic style.
		The foremost provocateur of tango in Austin, Texas, Glover Johns Gill leads the group on accordion and bandoneón.
		The tango community keeps the Argentine tradition alive by hosting several Milongas throughout the year, and Glover and his tangueros are always there, playing for the dancers in an intimate setting.
	www.glovertango.com /home.html (173 words)

	Voice Of Dance - Insights - Features
		The Golden Age of Tango, the full-evening entertainment with which Tango Buenos Aires is now touring the country, is simply the finest production of its kind since the legendary Tango Argentino in the late 1980s.
		You know this will not be the usual tango celebration at the beginning of the evening, when the curtain rises slowly on a man with his back to the audience.
		Tango Buenos Aires presents The Golden Age of Tango at 8 p.m.
	www.voiceofdance.org /Insights/insights.trans.col.cfm?LinkID=30000000000000159 (710 words)

	Musical Alternatives: New School, New York City TANGO & BEYOND: The World of Tango Songs
		Tango is much more than the lusty and sensuous dance familiar in the United States and around the world.
		Tango songs portray humankind conflicts from gender issues, ethnic stereotypes, and class conflicts to the plain old heartache of love in all its forms.
		The result is an original "global tango," that mixes traditional and avant-garde tango trends with the musicians' backgrounds and life experiences.
	www.bigbaer.com /blog/archives/2005/10/hold_1015.html (483 words)

	Hooker Heroes: Inventors of the Tango
		Denounced as lascivious and offensive by the Archbishop of Paris in 1914, and publicly disavowed by the Argentine ambassador, the tango nonetheless rocketed from the maisons close to the high society of France.
		Acceptance by the French legitimized and popularized the tango around the world (including, ironically, back in Argentina), leading to the "Golden Age" of tango in the 1920s.
		Perhaps because of its informal origins, the tango may be performed by a wide variety of musical ensembles ranging from solo piano to full orchestra.
	wondersmith.com /heroes/tango.htm (307 words)

	AMAGO TANGO ORQUESTA
		This impressive tango orchestra plays repertoire from the Golden Age of Tango -- the music that invites dancers to express themselves passionately in the dance.
		We play famous tango hits and as yet unknown jewels of tango music by Di Sarli, D'Arienzo, Canaro, and Troilo as well as other arrangements.
		The sparkling energy of this international tango orchestra, with musicians from America, Russia, the Netherlands and Germany, lures you irresistibly away into the world of tango.
	harmonk.com /amago (160 words)

	Tango Christchurch
		Piazzolla was a controversial and prodigious composer of contemporary Tango.
		Calos Gardel - The quintessential Tango singer Gardel defined Tango for Argentina in the golden age.
		He had a golden voice and an enigmatic smile and the nation mourned when he was tragically killed in a plane crash.
	homepages.ihug.co.nz /~micarson (1515 words)

	Tango nada mas - Music
		The true magic of Argentine tango is in its breadth.
		Although tango music has been played for over 100 years, from a dancers standpoint, we like to primarily focus on music of the 30's and 40's--the "golden age" of tango.
		Instead of giving long-winded descriptions of the history of the music, the best way to start to understand what tango is all about is to listen to it.
	www.tangonadamas.com /aboutmusic.cfm (540 words)

	TOsalsa Promotion: Tango Buenos Aires at Massey Hall
		The company will perform “The Golden Age of Tango” – a ravishing production that traces the provocative Argentine tango from its ill-famed origins in the brothels of Buenos Aires to the torrid dance sensation it has become today.
		The company has garnered world acclaim for its depiction of the tango’s evolution and is acknowledged as the most authentic and uncompromising exponent of the Argentine tango.
		Tango Buenos Aires features the swiveling hips, lethal legs, interlocking knees and dramatic full-body drags of 12 dancers and choreographer/dancer Hector Falcon.
	www.tosalsa.com /features/2003/feature030101promo_tango.asp (295 words)

	Argentine Tango Dancing - Lesson 2
		By the 1940's, the "Golden Age" of tango when the music and dance were very popular in Argentina, bands were playing in more complex ways.
		But it needs to be mentioned because you might have come to tango from another discipline where you move your feet before you move your body.
		Tango is not just an athletic but also an emotional and social activity.
	home.att.net /~larrydla/basics_2.html (2284 words)

	Music / Video (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Tango the night away to the UK's large selection of fantastic sensual and passionate music.
		These videos take you through the basic principles of tango and give you a number of sequences to practice.
		These are shown at normal speed and in slow motion to allow you to see exactly how the movements are made and the relative positions of the leader and follower.
	homepages.which.net /~tango.federico/MUSIC.htm (170 words)

	The History of Tango Dance — 150 years of Tango in Buenos Aires
		This history of Tango Dance is based on many years of study and research in Buenos Aires.
		The subject is a huge one, and the great dancers, those who were genuinely part of the living culture of Tango, have tended not to have academic backgrounds, while the academics in Argentina have tended to neglect the dance, concentrating instead on the music.
		There are many gaps in our understanding of Tango's history, particularly the history of the Dance, that might never be fully filled.
	www.history-of-tango.com /history-of-tango-dance.html (366 words)

	Tango Retro - The Show (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Tango Retro is a young company created and directed by Eva Lucero and Patricio Touceda.
		The show is a homage to the Stars of the Golden Age of tango with the unique style of its creators.
		Originated by artists in search of new forms of expresion, the show is full of energy, passion and glamour of the dance, and a wide musical variety that includes some of best Piazzolla hits.
	www.tangoretro.com /tango_retro_show.html (84 words)

	AllAboutTango.com - Argentine Tango Books in Buenos Aires
		Books about tango can be bought in many bookstores in the world, in Buenos Aires(in greatest quantity, but mostly in spanish), and on the internet.
		This book was made by the Argentine government to show the world tango culture.
		They have everything related to the golden age of tango: magazines, lyric books, pictures, original records, all about Gardel, letters, documents, photographs, etc.
	www.allabouttango.com /ba/ba_culture_books.htm (391 words)

	Amazon.com: La Revancha del Tango: Music: Gotan Project (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Many of the songs from "the Golden Age of Tango" created their own shares of controversy when they first came out in the first half of the 20th century.
		I think there is a fundamental question for tango music aficionados today: there are many excellent tango music groups that imitate the styles of the classic "orquestas tipicas".
		I love the tango from the 1940s and 50s but from I learn from its history, it is vital for tango to renovate itself every generation to sustain its existence 50 years after its Golden Age.
	www.amazon.com /Revancha-del-Tango-Gotan-Project/dp/B00008NRL8 (1511 words)

	Hudson Vally Tango
		Tango Pulse -- Milongas and classes in the Albany/Pittsfield area.
		We owe our lasting thanks to Alberto Paz and Valorie Hart of Planet Tango, who held the first Argentine tango workshops here, and provided the spark that lit the flame of tango in the Hudson Valley.
		They have made many visits to our area since, and each time, their instruction and inspiration carries us to another level of tango skill and enjoyment.
	www.nycdc.com /hvtango/news.html (624 words)

	Classic Tango: Harlequinn
		HQ 117 CANARO, FRANCISCO "1924-1940" - 23 tracks from this prolific tango bandleader with notes in English and Spanish by the famous tango writer Simon Collier.
		HQ 153 DE ANGELIS, ALFREDO "Alfredo de Angelis" - 25 track compilation of tango master's finest sides from the 1940's;he intended that his music was for dancing and remained firmly in the traditionalist camp, along with Juan D'Arienzo - booklet notes are in Spanish and English by tango expert Simon Collier.
		HQ 159 PUGLIESE, OSVALDO "In The 1940's - tango expert Simon Collier has called Pugliese a "brilliant bandleader, superb pianist and composer of distinction" - his music is of the "evolutionist" camp, and this 26 track compilation presents his best sides.
	www.classictango.com /Harlequin.htm (518 words)

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