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Synopsis
On re-reading this collection of papers on the political dimensions of queer tango written between 2015 and 2022, I realise, they offer answers – my answers – to these questions: how and why has queer tango changed in that period? As queer tango began as a critique of the conventions surrounding gender and sexuality found in mainstream tango, it is worth asking in what ways those conventions have changed? To what extent have changes in one informed or supported changes in the other? To what extent are those changes in both realms of tango reflections of or reactions against wider social and political changes in these seven tumultuous years.
These are the writings of a queer tango dancer and activist. Conventional academic publishing can be painfully slow. My primary purpose in writing about queer tango has to make immediate contributions to the debates which surround it, so that we all think more about what we are doing and why. Though I have never been a dance academic, I have been fortunate that dance academia is a broadly welcoming worldwide community. I have enjoyed giving papers at what is now known as the Dance Studies Association based in North America, while the lively events organised by POP Moves, the international research group expressly addressing popular dance and performance has provided opportunities for papers which are "academic" in good ways, that is, rigorous, evidence-based, and not afraid of theory, where theory is useful.
Yet as my last paper looking at queer tango and the War in Ukraine shows, included here are also papers which have arisen from a sense of urgency, where I have written something, because I feel I must.
Personal and sometimes legitimately subjective, Queer Tango Politics is my record of how, as I see it, queer tango has changed in the period covered and is still changing as circumstances evolve - circumstances where if anything, the pace of change is quickening and with it, the need for timely, well-informed reflection.
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- PublisherQueer Tango Project Publications
- Publication date2023
- ISBN 10 8797418307
- ISBN 13 9788797418307
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages173
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