Tango!: The Dance, the Song, the Story By: Simon Collier, Artemis Cooper, Maria Susana Azzi, Richard Martin, Ken Haas This book is a true tribute to the tango artform, the now-elegant dance born in the brothels of Buenos Aires. This is a spirited, beautifully illustrated history, offering insight into the character of Tango and Buenos Aires. Order Now from Amazon.com

Le Grand Tango: The Life and Music of Astor Piazzolla By: Maria Susana Azzi, Simon Collier, Yo-Yo Ma Astor Piazzolla transformed the national dance of Argentina into a whole new musical genre. Le Grand Tango vividly captures the life of this extraordinary musician. Order Now from Amazon.com

A Passion for Tango By: David Turner A Passion for Tango lets you into the world of tango, its feeling and its physicality, via the author's own passion for it. The result is a wonderful journey. a handbook, and a lovely sympathetic path through the history as well as the dance steps and the feelings they go with them. Order Now from Amazon UK

Astor Piazzolla: A Memoir By: Astor Piazzolla, Fernando Gonzalez Astor Piazzolla, brilliant, iconoclastic tango musician and composer, has become a national hero in Argentina and a cult figure for classical and jazz lovers worldwide, but only after a lifetime of controversy and struggle. The outspoken, headstrong Piazzolla told his story to journalist and longtime fan Natalio Gorin in the spring of 1990 in a series of frank interviews. Order Now from Amazon.com

Tango: The Structure of the Dance By: Castro Mauricio, Truco Daniel (Illustrator) Mauricio Castro's book offers a new system to help the dancer creatively develop his/her tango using solidly established technical foundations. The instructions can be easily followed with the help of a series of two and three-dimensional diagrams especially designed by the author. Order Now from Amazon.com

Tango and the Political Economy of Passion (Institutional Structures of Feeling) By: Marta E. Savigliano What is tango? Dance, music, and lyrics of course, but also a philosophy, a strategy, a commodity, even a disease. This book explores the politics of tango, tracing tango's travels from the brothels of Buenos Aires to the cabarets of Paris and the shak dansu clubs of Tokyo. The author is an Argentinean political theorist and a dance professor at the University of California at Riverside. She uses her "tango tongue" to tell interwoven tales of sexuality, gender, race, class, and national identity. Along the way she unravels relations between machismo and colonialism, postmodernism and patriarchy, exoticism and standardization. In the end she arrives at a discourse on decolonization as intellectual "unlearning." Order Now from Amazon.com

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