Title : Paris-Buenos Aires - A century of tango - Nardo Zalko - Book

Summary :

Buenos Aires is the wife, Paris the mistress," Argentines have been saying for generations. A love story began between these two cities one day in 1906, thanks to the tango. This music, born in the suburbs of Buenos Aires at the end of the 19th century and raised in its brothels, landed in Paris like a meteorite. Its arrival engendered that mysterious complicity between the two cities that has never been denied since, and from which popular Argentine poets have continued to draw inspiration. Since then, more than four hundred tangos evoking Paris, its neighborhoods, its landscapes, its legendary figures, and its literary myths have been written by Buenos Aires troubadours. The French language and Parisian slang penetrated the verses of the "southernmost European port," with the power of the irreplaceable word. The link between the two cities was sealed by the creator of sung tango, Carlos Gardel. Born in Toulouse, he became the porteño par excellence. Astor Piazzolla, from 1955, would confirm this fusion. Paris and Buenos Aires, tango and Paris: a passion, with its comings and goings, its intoxications and its disappointments. It is a story within History, punctuated by wars, coups d'état, migrations between the two continents. It is the story of an art, written against a backdrop of bandoneon. It began a century ago. It still continues.

• EAN: 9782866455699
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