Tango

The Cambridge Companion to Tango, edited by Kristin Wendland and Kacey Link, is written for students, scholars, and aficionados across academic disciplines. It offers a valuable compilation of tango studies from diverse perspectives. This multidisciplinary collection includes chapters specializing in the performing arts, humanities, and even medical research, and collectively, they cover tango’s history, culture, and performance practices. These tango studies highlight how the art form flourished in its native Argentina and abroad, and trace its international and cultural impact over the last century. The authors, some published in English for the first time, signify tango’s global reach, including Argentine nationals living both in Argentina and abroad, North Americans, Europeans, and a Japanese and Turkish national, as they represent distinct approaches to the study and practice of the art form in our globalized world. 

This accompanying website illustrates the sights and sounds of tango with audio and visual resources as well as relevant web links. The reader will see these resources cited in the print book with the web references in parentheses. Here on the website, we organize the resources based on the individual chapters.