A Tango With Robert Farris Thompson
Posted by somebody on Monday, 17 September 2007A Tango With Robert Farris Thompson
on Afropop Worldwide
on Afropop Worldwide
Robert Farris Thompson, the groundbreaking scholar of African art at Yale University, has recently published a splendid new book, "Tango: The Art History of Love" (Pantheon). On this very special episode of Afropop Worldwide's Hip Deep, Thompson talks to Afropop's own Ned Sublette, author of "Cuba and Its Music: From the First Drums to the Mambo," about the erotic Afro-Argentine dance whose Kikongo-derived name he renders as "moving in time to a beat." With musical examples galore.
http://www.afropop.org/radio/radio_program/ID/618/
Blog:
Groups audience: