Global Tangos: Travels in the Transnational Imaginary by Melissa A. Fitch

By Melissa A. Fitch

Global Tangos: Travels within the Transnational Imaginary argues opposed to the hackneyed rose-in-mouth clichés of Argentine tango, demonstrating how the dance can be used that allows you to comprehend ameliorations worldwide that experience taken position because of defining positive factors of globalization: transnationalism and the increase of social media. Global Tangos demonstrates the cultural influence of Argentine tango on the earth by means of assembling an strange array of cultural narratives created in nearly thirty international locations, all of which convey how tango has combined and mingled within the international imaginary, occasionally in wildly unforeseen varieties. issues comprise Tango Barbie and Ken, ads for telephone intercourse, the presence of tango in political upheavals within the heart East and in lively eastern children’s tv programming, homosexual tango porn, tango orchestras and composers in global struggle II focus camps, worldwide tango protests aimed toward reclaiming public house, the transformation of Buenos Aires due to tango tourism, and using tango for palliative care and to regard different illnesses. additionally they contain the worldwide improvement of queer tango concept, activism, and fairs. Global Tangos indicates how the increase in social media has heralded a brand new period of political activism, artistry, unity, and engagement on the planet, one during which digital worldwide tango groups have certainly develop into very “real” social and help networks. The textual content engages a few key innovations from modern critics within the fields of tourism experiences, geography, dance reviews, cultural anthropology, literary stories, transnational reviews, tv reviews, feminism, and queer conception. Global Tangos underscores the interconnectedness of cultural id, economics, politics, and tool within the construction, advertising and marketing, distribution, and movement of world pictures relating to tango—and, by means of extension, Latin America—that shuttle the world.

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