Paper Tangos

by Julie Taylor, Michael Warner, Dilip Parameshwar Gaonkar, et al.

Book Overview

Tango. A multidimensional expression of Argentine identity, one that speaks to that nation's sense of disorientation, loss, and terror. Yet the tango mesmerizes dancers and audiences alike throughout the world. In Paper Tangos, Julie Taylor-a classically trained dancer and anthropologist-examines the poetics of the tango while describing her own quest to dance this most dramatic of paired dances.
Taylor, born in the United States, has lived...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822321912
• ISBN13: 9780822321910
• Release Date: June 1998
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.48 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.3" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

Wonderful book

Paper Tango is such a lovely book. It speaks to the soul of Tango and of the Argentinean people. I love it.

Tango Fishing?

Did the reviewer and I read the same book, see the same flipbook inside? Thanks to him (and I'm sure he's a him), this book isn't out of print, which I think it soon will be, as the Argentine tango becomes more and more popular, for many of the reasons Taylor describes. It's a dance for the times, and the times require presence and balance, if there are to be any more times. I thought it was a lovely book, that I will reread, as complicated and as poetic as the tango I am only just beginning to learn. I'll bet he hasn't been trout-fishing either, a close relative -- two disciplines of mind and body that require deep attention and grace.