The Life, Music, and Times of Carlos Gardel

1986-12-15 Biography & Autobiography

Author : Simon Collier
Release : 1986-12-15
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Download or read book The Life, Music, and Times of Carlos Gardel written by Simon Collier. This book was released on 1986-12-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the first biography in English of the great Argentinian tango singer Carlos Gardel (1890-1935), Collier traces his rise from very modest beginnings to become the first genuine "superstar" of twentieth-century Latin America. In his late teens, Gardel won local fame in the barrios of Buenos Aires singing in cafes and political clubs. By the 1920s, after he switched to tango singing, the songs he wrote and sang enjoyed instant popularity and have become classics of the genre. He began making movies in the 1930s, quickly establishing himself as the most popular star of the Spanish-language cinema, and at the time of his death Paramount was planning to launch his Hollywood career.Collier's biography focuses on Gardel's artistic career and achievements but also sets his life story within the context of the tango tradition, of early twentieth-century Argentina, and of the history of popular entertainment.

The Life, Music and Times of Carlos Gardel

1986-01-01

Author : Simon Collier
Release : 1986-01-01
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Sex & Danger in Buenos Aires

1991-01-01 History

Author : Donna J. Guy
Release : 1991-01-01
Genre : History
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Download or read book Sex & Danger in Buenos Aires written by Donna J. Guy. This book was released on 1991-01-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of prostitution necessarily examines questions of power, class, gender, and public health. In Sex and Danger in Buenos Aires these questions combine with particular force. During most of the time covered in this provocative book, from the late nineteenth century well into the twentieth, prostitution was legal in Argentina. Fears and anxieties concerning the effect of female sexual commerce on family and nation were rampant. Donna J. Guy looks at many aspects of the debate that followed an escalating demand for prostitutes by Argentines and European immigrants. She discusses the widespread fear of white slavery, the merits of medically supervised municipal houses of prostitution, the rights of local governments to restrict the civil liberties of citizens and foreigners, the censorship of literature and music dealing with the plight of prostitutes, and the potential criminality of unsupervised working women who might abandon their families. Guy also describes attempts to deal with female prostitution: rehabilitation, modifications of municipal bordello laws, and medical programs to prevent the spread of venereal disease. She makes clear that the treatment of "marginal" women by liberal politicians and doctors helped promoted policies of repression and censorship that would later be extended to other unacceptable social groups. Her study of how both local and national government in Argentina dealt with these women reveals important links between gender, politics, and economics.

Tracing Tangueros

2016 Music

Author : Kacey Link
Release : 2016
Genre : Music
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Book Rating : 235/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Tracing Tangueros written by Kacey Link. This book was released on 2016. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Tracing Tangueros' offers an inside view of Argentine tango music in the context of the growth and development of the art form's instrumental and stylistic innovations. The authors trace tango's historical and stylistic musical trajectory in Argentina, beginning with the guardia nueva's crystallization of the genre in the 1920s, moving through tango's Golden Age (1932-1955), and culminating with the 'Music of Buenos Aires' today.

The Invention of Latin American Music

2020 Music

Author : Pablo Palomino
Release : 2020
Genre : Music
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Book Rating : 401/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book The Invention of Latin American Music written by Pablo Palomino. This book was released on 2020. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book reconstructs the transnational history of the category "Latin American music" during the first half of the 20th century, from a longer perspective that begins in the 19th century and extends the narrative until the present. It analyzes intellectual, commercial, state, musicological and diplomatic actors that created and elaborated this category. It shows music as a key field for the dissemination of a cultural idea of Latin America in the 1930s. It studies multiple music-related actors, such as intellectuals, musicologists, policy-makers, popular artists, radio operators, and diplomats in Argentina, Mexico, Brazil, the United States, and different parts of Europe. It proposes a regionalist approach to Latin American and global history, by showing individual nations as both agents and result of transnational forces-imperial, economic, and ideological. It argues that Latin America is the sedimentation of over two centuries of regionalist projects, and studies the place of music regionalism in that history"--

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