In the earliest years of the twentieth century, North American
ballroom dancers favored the waltz or the polka. But in the 1910s,
a new dance, the tango, broke onto the United States scene when
Vernon and Irene Castle performed it in a Broadway musical. Rudolph
Valentino, Arthur Murray, and Xavier Cugat popularized it even more
in the 1920s and 1930s, and thousands of people were crowding dance
floors around the country to hear the music and dance the tango.
This work chronicles the history of the tango in the United States,
from its antecedents in Argentina, Paris and London to the present
day. It covers the dancers, musicians, and composers who were
promoting it, and the tango's influence on American music. Chapters
are dedicated to Vernon and Irene Castle, Rudolph Valentino, Arthur
Murray, Xavier Cugat, the Big Band and jazz singers who
incorporated tangos with English lyrics into their repertoires,
Juan Carlos Cobian, Osvaldo Fresedo, Francisco Canaro, Carlos
Gardel, Astor Piazzolla, the influence of World War II on the
tango, portrayals of the tango in the movies and ballet, and the
tango recordings of Gerry Mulligan, Gary Burton, Al Di Meola, Yo-Yo
Ma, and Julio Iglesias, among many other topics.
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