The Tango Machine

Musical Culture in the Age of Expediency

Morgan James Luker (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

216 Seiten

2016
University of Chicago Press (Verlag)
978-0-226-38540-2 (ISBN)

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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.

Morgan James Luker is associate professor of music at Reed College in Portland, Oregon.

Erscheinungsdatum	15.11.2016
Reihe/Serie	Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology CSE
Sprache	englisch
Maße	15 x 23 mm
Gewicht	397 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Instrumentenkunde
	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Musiktheorie / Musiklehre
	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Pop / Rock
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie
ISBN-10	0-226-38540-X / 022638540X
ISBN-13	978-0-226-38540-2 / 9780226385402
Zustand	Neuware