The tango machine : musical culture in the age of expediency /

The tango machine : musical culture in the age of expediency /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Luker, Morgan James, author.
Imprint:	Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2016.
Description:	1 online resource
Language:	English
Series:	Chicago studies in ethnomusicology Chicago studies in ethnomusicology.
Subject:	Tangos -- Argentina -- History and criticism. Popular music -- Argentina. Popular music. Tangos. Argentina. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11265742

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ISBN:	9780226385686 022638568X 9780226385402 022638540X 9780226385549 022638554X
Notes:	Print version record.
Summary:	In Argentina, tango isn't just the national music--it's a national brand. But ask any contemporary Argentine if they ever really listen to it and chances are the answer is no: tango hasn't been popular for more than fifty years. In this book, Morgan James Luker explores that odd paradox by tracing the many ways Argentina draws upon tango as a resource for a wide array of economic, social, and cultural--that is to say, non-musical--projects. In doing so, he illuminates new facets of all musical culture in an age of expediency when the value and meaning of the arts is less about the arts themselves and more about how they can be used. Luker traces the diverse and often contradictory ways tango is used in Argentina in activities ranging from state cultural policy-making to its export abroad as a cultural emblem, from the expanding nonprofit arts sector to tango-themed urban renewal projects. He shows how projects such as these are not peripheral to an otherwise "real" tango--they are the absolutely central means by which the values of this musical culture are cultivated. By richly detailing the interdependence of aesthetic value and the regimes of cultural management, this book sheds light on core conceptual challenges facing critical music scholarship today
Other form:	Print version: Luker, Morgan James. Tango machine. Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2016 9780226385402
Standard no.:	99970635660

Table of Contents:

On the values of music in expedient Argentina
Expedient soundings: the genre culture of contemporary tango music
Contemporary tango and the cultural politics of musica popular
Tango among the nonprofit arts
Tango as part of the intangible cultural heritage of humanity
"This is going to be good for all of us": tango and the cultural industries
Conclusion: he sings better every day: musical culture in the age of expediency.