Postgraduate course
Social and political history of Tango
(This is not just a course about the history of tango)
This is a course about political and social Argentine history through tango.
And that is why we ask ourselves these questions:
- Why was Tango born in brothels in Argentina at the same time that people were beginning to speak about sex?
- If it was marginalized and rejected, why was a tango performed during the centenary celebrations of Argentina’s independence in 1910?
- How are tango lyrics related to the birth of the bourgeois family?
- Why is women’s desire an issue for tango?
- Is it possible to think that the end of Peronism and Piazzolla’s music are related?
- Why has Tango stopped being popular in less than ten years?
These eight classes deal with social Argentine history and tango history altogether.
As they are virtual lessons, there will be songs, motion pictures, links and discussions on the forums.
Our theoretical guide is Michel Foucault and our spiritual leaders are Aníbal Troilo and Astor Piazzolla.
More info on: FLACSO Argentina