{"pk":40482,"title":"“Italian Tango” Between Buenos Aires and Paolo Conte","subtitle":null,"abstract":"This essay will attempt to disentangle the “DNA” of the intricate music of tango in order to reveal the Italian strand of its genetic sequence, following it trans-historically and trans-continentally from its inception in Buenos Aires to its contemporary return to one of its ancestral homes, Italy. Outlining a little-studied version of “Italian sound,” in the following pages I will aim to unearth the Italian roots of tango in Argentina, which require a thorough description because they are often overlooked, by considering some textual examples. I will then follow the tango’s long branching out to Italy, through a brief treatment of the successful arrival of this music on the peninsula and through consideration of some of its most original all-Italian versions, the tangos by singer and songwriter Paolo Conte. The perspective offered here will be that of an overview covering a century of “Italian tango” and will especially privilege the connection between the tangos of Buenos Aires and those of the Asti-born Italian composer.","language":"en","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"tango, Argentina, migration, Paolo Conte"},{"word":"Music, Migration Studies, Italian Studies"}],"section":"Transnational Pop","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1811064h","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Ilaria","middle_name":"","last_name":"Serra","name_suffix":"","institution":"Florida Atlantic University","department":"None"}],"date_submitted":"2013-06-08T15:03:34Z","date_accepted":"2013-06-08T15:03:34Z","date_published":"2014-03-03T05:08:12Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cisj/article/40482/galley/30426/download/"}]}