Tango’s Cross-Cultural Dance
2009; University of Toronto Press; Volume: 139; Linguagem: Inglês
10.3138/ctr.139.002
ISSN1920-941X
Autores Tópico(s)Sports, Gender, and Society
ResumoI caught two neo-tango concerts in Toronto in the summer of 2008: Otros Aires at the Lula Lounge, “Canada’s Premier Live Venue for Latin Music,” in Little Brazil, and Bajofondo at the Mod Club in Little Italy. These concerts and the “world music” radio shows that alerted me to them, together with the existence of Little Italy, Little Brazil and the Lula Lounge, are obvious signifiers of the intercultural reality of Toronto. This, it bears repeating, is not an uncomplicated reality. The diversity of cultural practice in the city is embedded in a matrix of political, economic and material realities. My aim here, however, is not an analysis of intercultural capitalism, of the reification of identities, or of civic discourses that celebrate (or capitalize on) immigrant communities and ethnic enclaves, but a consideration of tango as (varieties of) cross-cultural performance. My reflections are inspired by the performances I saw, in particular the Otros Aires concert.
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