This article explores the relationships between the electronic tango and the contemporary corporeal features of the tango within the process of legitimizing new experiencies in the aesthetic and music fields. As a result of the technological changes and the diffusion of the electronic tango through society, an intense debate has set off about the “authenticity” of the electronic tango, its artistic value and its ideological and political connotations. The controversy deepened when some dance rooms incorporated electronic tango until it was no longer considered as something new. Dancers who wanted to keep the traditional canonic tango at a distance became the natural audience of electronic
tango, as it sets forth the stronger relationships of meaning between bodies and music. On the basis of the analysis of the musical and audiovisual production and the objections coming specially from the traditional tango world, this paper intends to show how dancing became an environment for aesthetic exploration, while reaffirming bodily trangression, female protagonism and alterations of the heterosexual paradigm of the traditional tango.
Liska, M. M. (2016). The Transgressions of the Electronic Tango: Contemporary Social Conditions and Aesthetic Valuations on the Fringe of the Tango. Revista Musical Chilena, 70(225), pp. 50 – 72. Retrieved from https://revistamad.uchile.cl/index.php/RMCH/article/view/42597
