Paper Tangos

"Julie Taylor has written a wonderful, brilliant book about the poetics of the tango in Argentina... While its theoretical perspective is very sophisticated, it is also very clearly (though poetically), directly, and succinctly presented in a sparse, elegant, suggestive prose." - Kathleen Stewart, University of Texas at Austin "This is a highly unusual work, an allegory of violence and civil war through reflections on the tango by an unusually honest writer with an intimate knowledge, as insider and outsider, of Argentinian history and culture." - Michael Taussig, Columbia University