The Tango Singer
Title | The Tango Singer PDF eBook |
Author | Tomás Eloy Martínez |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | 256 |
Release | 2014-07-31 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1408857499 |
Bruno Cadogan has flown from New York to Buenos Aires in search of the elusive and legendary Julio Martel, a tango singer whose voice has never been recorded yet is said to be so beautiful it is almost supernatural. Bruno is increasingly drawn to the mystery of Martel and his strange and evocative performances in a series of apparently arbitrary sites around the city. As Bruno tries to find Martel, he begins to untangle the story of the singer's life, and to believe that Martel's increasingly rare performances map a dark labyrinth of the city's past.
The Life, Music, and Times of Carlos Gardel
Title | The Life, Music, and Times of Carlos Gardel PDF eBook |
Author | Simon Collier |
Publisher | University of Pittsburgh Pre |
Total Pages | 369 |
Release | 1986-12-15 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0822976420 |
In the first biography in English of the great Argentinian tango singer Carlos Gardel (1890-1935), Collier traces his rise from very modest beginnings to become the first genuine “superstar” of twentieth-century Latin America. In his late teens, Gardel won local fame in the barrios of Buenos Aires singing in cafes and political clubs. By the 1920s, after he switched to tango singing, the songs he wrote and sang enjoyed instant popularity and have become classics of the genre. He began making movies in the 1930s, quickly establishing himself as the most popular star of the Spanish-language cinema, and at the time of his death Paramount was planning to launch his Hollywood career. Collier's biography focuses on Gardel's artistic career and achievements but also sets his life story within the context of the tango tradition, of early twentieth-century Argentina, and of the history of popular entertainment.
The Parrot Tico Tango
Title | The Parrot Tico Tango PDF eBook |
Author | Anna Witte |
Publisher | Barefoot Books |
Total Pages | 27 |
Release | 2019-02-01 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 1782858083 |
Watch out for Tico Tango! He wants all of the fruit in the forest for himself, even though it belongs to other animals. Will he anything make this fruit-snatching parrot learn his lesson? Find out in this musical story that teaches kids about colors, animals, and being grateful for what they have.
Carlos Gardel
Title | Carlos Gardel PDF eBook |
Author | Rafael Flores Montenegro |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | |
Release | 2019-12-28 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780578625966 |
A biography of tango singer Carlos Gardel.
Paper Tangos
Title | Paper Tangos PDF eBook |
Author | Julie M. Taylor |
Publisher | Duke University Press |
Total Pages | 174 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 9780822321910 |
In PAPER TANGOS, classically trained dancer and anthropologist Julie Taylor examines the poetics of the tango, while recounting a life lived crossing the borders of two distinct and complex cultures. Drawing parallels among the violence of the Argentine Junta, tango dancing, and her own life, Taylor weaves the line between engaging memoir and cultural critique. The book's design includes photographs on every page that form a flip-book sequence of a tango. 89 photos.
Tango
Title | Tango PDF eBook |
Author | Justin Bond |
Publisher | Feminist Press at CUNY |
Total Pages | 146 |
Release | 2011 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1558617477 |
"Like Bond, the memoir is droll, pensive and filled with zingers teetering between funny and ferocious."--The New York Times Hailed as "the greatest cabaret artist of [V's] generation" in the New Yorker, Mx. Justin Vivian Bond makes a brilliant literary debut with this candid and hilarious coming-of-age tale. Bond recalls in vivid detail how it looked and felt to first discover Mom's lipstick (Iced Watermelon by Revlon), and how dreary it could be for a trans/queer kid to join the Cub Scouts. Always haunted by the knowledge of being "different," Bond began to create intimate friendships with girls, and to feel increasingly at risk with boys. But when the bully next door wanted to meet secretly, Bond couldn't resist. Their trysts went on for years, making Bond acutely aware of how sexual power and vulnerability can be experienced at the same time. With inimitable style, Bond raises issues about LBGTQ adolescence, parenting trans/queer children, and bullying, while being utterly entertaining.
Santa Evita
Title | Santa Evita PDF eBook |
Author | Tomas Eloy Martinez |
Publisher | Vintage |
Total Pages | 386 |
Release | 1997-07-29 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0679768149 |
From one of Latin America's finest writers comes a mesmerizing novel about life of the legendary Eva Peron, the famed wife of an Argentine dictator, told backwards from death to childhood. • Now a 7-part Limited Series on Hulu. Bigger than fiction, Eva Peron was the poor-trash girl who reinvented herself as a beauty, snared Argentina's dictator, reigned as uncrowned queen of the masses, and was struck down by cancer. When her desperate but foxy husband brings Europe's leading embalmer to Eva's deathbed to make her immortal, the fantastical comedy begins. "Finally, this is the novel I always wanted to read." —Gabriel Garcia Marquez