The Tango Machine: Musical Culture in the Age of Expediency - Couverture rigide

Luker, Morgan James

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 022638540X ISBN 13 : 9780226385402

Editeur : University of Chicago Press, 2016

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

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

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Chicago Press
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 022638540X
• ISBN 13: 9780226385402
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 216
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• Personne responsable: non disponible