love,
tango,
samba,
popular culture,
popular music
Abstract
This article proposes an explanation of the centrality of love in the poetic structure of tango and samba based on the modernization of the cities of Buenos Aires and Rio de Janeiro in the 1920’s. Through the analysis of lyrics from both genres, and a survey of Argentine and Brazilian historiographies of popular music, this article lays out a transnational perspective about the making of urban popular cultures of the early Twentieth Century, and also provides a reflection on music as an historiographic object.
Author Biography
Pablo Palomino, University of California, Berkeley
Department of History, University of California, Berkeley
