ABRAZOS is pleased to announce the publication of Tango Passion and the
Rules of the Game by the Swedish sociologist and tango instructor Margareta
Westergård. This book has been translated by the author from the original,
Tango i Buenos Aires - koder och passion, which was published in Sweden
2009.
Tango Passion and the Rules of the Game describes the behavioural patterns
and strict rules (códigos), at the traditional dance halls (milongas) of
Buenos Aires. They constitute a frame around the tango, which in its unique
embrace (el abrazo) is danced here with more devotion and passion than in
any other tango environment in the world. Interspersed with the running text
are the author’s personal diary notes from her intensive tango dancing
sessions in Buenos Aires during the first decade of the twenty-first
century. These diary entries add immediacy, local colour, and capsule
descriptions of the capricious life lived in the tango salons, where
changing circumstances can produce both tears of disappointment and intense
pleasure.
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sincerely
Daniel Canuti
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