Percale carlos gardel biography
- Perhaps early tango's most important international star was the great Carlos Gardel (1890–1935).
- (The Singer from Buenos Aires).
- The organito is the great emancipator of tango, that which lifted it out of its miserable childhood, dressed it in fancy clothes, and found it a decent home.
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From Musica y poesía del tango, pp. 33-35, by Antonio Pau (Editorial Trotta, Madrid, 2001). Copyright © 2001 by Antonio Pau Pedrón. English version by Michael Krugman, Copyright © 2013. The painting is "El último organito" by Juan Carlos Lemmo via artelista.com.]
The organito [a portable, mechanical barrel organ–MK] is the missing link between the bordello tango of the arrabal–the outlying slums of Buenos Aires–and the refined tango of the café. The organito is the great emancipator of tango, that which lifted it out of its miserable childhood, dressed it in fancy clothes, and found it a decent home. The organito projected its mechanical tangos into the windows of the middle class neighborhoods, thus transforming the forbidden melodies into something domestic and familiar.
El Último Organito -Anibal Troilo (1949)
The organito of Buenos Aires and Montevideo is the twin brother of the organillo madrileño. But the more sedentary organillo is born and dies in place, while the organito of the Río d
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Tango, Gender, and Tuberculosis in Buenos Aires, 1900–1940
Armus, Diego. "Tango, Gender, and Tuberculosis in Buenos Aires, 1900–1940". Disease in the History of Modern Latin America: From Malaria to AIDS, edited by Diego Armus, New York, USA: Duke University Press, 2003, pp. 101-129. https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822384342-006
Armus, D. (2003). Tango, Gender, and Tuberculosis in Buenos Aires, 1900–1940. In D. Armus (Ed.), Disease in the History of Modern Latin America: From Malaria to AIDS (pp. 101-129). New York, USA: Duke University Press. https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822384342-006
Armus, D. 2003. Tango, Gender, and Tuberculosis in Buenos Aires, 1900–1940. In: Armus, D. ed. Disease in the History of Modern Latin America: From Malaria to AIDS. New York, USA: Duke University Press, pp. 101-129. https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822384342-006
Armus, Diego. "Tango, Gender, and Tuberculosis in Buenos Aires, 1900–1940" In Disease in the History of Modern Latin America: From Malaria to AIDS edited by Diego Armus, 101-129. New York, USA: Duke University Press, 2003. https://doi.org/1
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Music: José Ricardo & Carlos Gardel
Lyrics: Celedonio Flores
Translation: Felipe & Ayano
Recorded by Edmundo Rivero accompanied by Victor Buchino in 1950
Desde lejos se te embroca,
pelandruna abacanada,
que nacistes en la mugre
de un convento de arrabal…
Pero hay algo que te vende,
yo no sé si es la mirada,
la manera de sentarte, de vestir, de estar parada
o tu cuerpo acostumbrado a las pilchas de percal.
Ese cuerpo que te marca los compases tentadores
del candombe de algún tango
en los brazos de un buen gil,
mientras triunfa tu silueta
y tu traje de colores,
entre risas y piropos
de muchachos seguidores
entre el humo de los puros
y el champán de Armenonville.
Son mentiras,
no fue un guapo compadrón y prepotente
ni un malevo veterano el que al vicio te largó...
Vos rodaste por tu culpa
y no fue inocentemente...
¡berretines de bacana que tenías en la mente
desde un día que un jailaife de yuguillo te afiló!
Siempre vas con los amigos
a tomar ricos licores
a lujosos reservados del Petit o del Julien,
y tu vieja, ¡pobre vieja!
lava toda la semana
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