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The Political Economy of Passion

The only way to make love worthwhile is without caution.

  1. Kahimi KarieHabanera
    Trapeziste  (2003)
  2. Roberto CardosoTaquito Militar (Milonga Porteña)
    Guitarra (Dial, 1999)
  3. Susana BacaDe los Amores
    Eco de Sombras (Luaka Bop, 2000)
  4. Shigeru Umebayashi2046 (Rumba version)
    2046 (2004)
  5. Brigitte FontaineIl se passe des choses
    Brigitte Fontaine… est Folle (Saravah, 1968)
  6. LoveA House is not a Motel
    Forever Changes (1967)
  7. Scott WalkerThe Old Man’s Back Again
    Scott 4 (1969)

Tango is a practice already ready for struggle. It knows about taking sides, positions, risks. It has the experience of domination/resistance from within. Tango, stretching the colonized stereotypes of the latino-macho-Catholic fatalism, is a language of decolonization. So, pick and choose. Improvise. Hide away. Run after them. Stay still. Move at an astonishing speed. Shut up. Scream a rumor. Turn around. Go back without returning. Upside down. Let your feet do the thinking. Be comfortable in your restlessness. Tango.

– Marta E. Savigliano, Tango and the Political Economy of Passion.

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5 Responses

  1. Stacey Derbinshire says:

    keep up the great work!

  2. Andras Fox says:

    love this post heaps – was not expecting some of those sounds when i clicked play…

    delicious.

  3. Billy Angel says:

    thanks for introducing me to susana baca what a voice

  4. Joelatin says:

    My son told me to check out your blog and I must say I’m impressed, very helpful.

  5. gambette says:

    AMAZING

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The song makes its imprint
in the air, making itself felt,
a felt world. Here, there,
the stunned silence

of knowing I will not remember
what I heard;

futures that will never happen,
a fluidity we cannot achieve
except as a child
creating possibility.

This is the untranslatable song
hidden in the earth.

-Untranslatable Song [1]