More Than Two to Tango: Argentine Tango Immigrants in New York City

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245 Index Page numbers in italics refer to figures. aboriginal and indigenous populations, 20, 29, 33, 36 addiction (to tango), 65; “tango fever,” 66, 102; “tango junkies” (or les posséd és in France) 65. See also tangomania African and black roots of tango, 20, 26, 31, 32; 226n3, African comparsas (dancing troupes) 26. See also candombe Afro-Argentines (Afroargentinos), 27–32, 43–45, 226n1 amateur: dancers from Argentine, 77, 109, 141, 148, 156, 158, 184, 186, 199, 202; healers, 198, 210–12, 214–15; tango dancers, 14, 52, 54, 57, 77–78, 109, 156, 158, 209, 220 Andrews, George R., 28–29, 33 anonymity (among tango artists), 109–11, 119, 182. See also invisibility Argentine, Argentinian, and Argentinean (exchangeability of terms), 225n1 Argentine Anticommunist Alliance (AAA), National Security Doctrine, 41. See also military Argentine community, in New York: 56, 58, 60, 185. See also Argentine enclave ; community Argentine emigrants: émigré, 6, 23, 48, 121, 138, 225n2, 225n3; exile (feelings of) 47, 170; exiled artists, 41–42, 226n4; self-exiled (Libertad Lamarque ), 39; tango émigré, 8, 140 Argentine enclave, 49–60, 167, 202, 211. See also Little Argentina Argentine nation, 8–9, 29, 33–34, 44, 77, 172; Argentine national identity, 48, 128; argentinidad, 5, 21, 29, 36, 152; Catholic religion, 36, 51; nationalistic discourse, 8, 9 Argentines’ self-identification: European, 6–7, 23, 34, 136–37, 141, 150–52, 155, 160, 181; racial dislocation, 151; similar and different from other Latinos, 22–23, 150–51, 155, 162–65, 167, 169 Argentine tango: early Argentine performers in the United States, 8–12, 225–26n5; origins, 20, 31–36; renaissance , 12–15 246 • Index authenticity: Argentines as the tango’s genuine and legitimate interpreters, 21, 75, 81–82, 84, 158, 171; branding of Argentine tango, 78–82, 216, 221; innovation in tango, 85; passing for a porteño, 98; in tango, 73, 77, 82, 85, 101, 218; tango’s content versus form, 82–85 bandoneón, 46, 116, 117, 227n1; players, 116, 133 barrio, 11, 81–82 blacks: in Argentina, 20, 29–31; black gauchos, 27; chromatic blindness, 20; disappearance, 28–30; mulattos, 29; slaves, 26–28 blue-collar: Argentines 49, 149, 164; economy, 119 Bourdieu, Pierre, 15, 17–19, 47, 143, 147, 157, 198, 208, 226n8, 226n9 brain drain, 39, 76. See also Argentine emigrants brothels, 34–35, 44; prostitution 34, 36 Buenos Aires: the “Disney World” of tango, 6; “the Paris of the South,” 20; tango in, 3–5, 11, 12, 14–15, 43, 46– 47, 57, 67, 75, 77, 82, 84, 145; tango history in, 8–9, 34–5; tango kingdom, 53; “Tango Mecca,” 14 cabecitas negras (little black heads), 37, 44; descamisados (shirtless) 37; música de negros (dark-skinned people’s music), 39. See also creole; Perón candombe, 32, 43, 226n2. See also African and black roots of tango; AfroArgentines capital: economic, 16, 19, 52, 157, 210; emotional, 5, 101, 114; human, 22, 75, 122, 125, 143–44, 147. See also social capital commodities, 157, 216; commoditized forms of tango, 40 community: leaders, 59; 164; organizations and groups, 58–59, 64, 164–65, 223. See also old guard; outer borough; Queens compadrazgo (godparenting), 16, 173–74 competition among Argentines, 15, 17– 18, 21, 24, 75, 86, 99 , 103, 121, 165, 170–71, 177, 180, 183–84, 189, 191, 221–22 Conquista del Desierto, La (Conquest of the Desert), 33. See also Argentine nation contracts, 10, 91, 127, 179, 223 cosmopolitanism (in tango), 3, 21, 67, 73, 154, 157, 159, 168–69, 213, 220; cosmopolitan regulars, 22, 47, 148–49, 167, 185, 223 creole (criollo), 9, 23, 31, 33, 36–37, 73, 149, 152–54, 160–62, 225n4; tango roots, 20, 32, 44. See also darkerskinned Argentines; Perón dancing styles, 35, 43, 66, 82-85, 88, 168; ballroom tango dancing, 14, 43, 50, 52; improvisation, 66, 78, 83; stage, fantasy, or “for export” tango, 40, 43, 193, 194, 195; tango salón (ballroom), 66, 87, 182 darker-skinned Argentines, 7, 23, 152–55, 159–61, 167, 169, 223; negrear, 135; negro/negra, 32, 45, 135, 153–54, 162, 227n7; negros, 37, 44 Dávila, Arlene, 6, 14, 45, 76, 157 December 2001 (Argentina’s crisis), 1, 128 democracy: alternated democratic periods , 40–41, 128; transition to, 13, 20, 42 “disappeared” Argentines, 41; CONADEP (National Council for the Disappeared People), 13, 226n4. See also military elite: agro-industrial, 35–36; Argentine, 20, 28, 29, 34, 39, 44; global and foreign , 14, 157; global leisure class, 218...