 The tango in the United States.
Author: Groppa, Carlos G Published: 2004 In the earliest years of the twentieth century, North American ballroom dancers favoured the waltz or the polka. But a new dance, the tango, broke onto the scene when Vernon and Irene Castle performed it in a Broadway musical, and soon thousands of tango enthusiasts began crowding dance floors around the country, Carlos Groppa's book chronicles the history of the tango in the United States, from its antecedents in Argentina, Paris, and London to the present day, covering dancers, musicians, composers, and the tango's influence on American music. |
