This article analyzes the period in which tango was considered forbidden music –between the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century–, a period in which tango was, without trying to, the cultural expression of a society mobilized by a climate of social conflict and moral, sexual and gender “disorder”. At that time, tango congregated marginal people around it, because of the place it emerged: the brothel. In this sense, its discourse –music, lyrics and dance– brought together those who expressed alternative forms of subjectivity, with those who were supposed to embody normality. The article examines the conformation of these non-normative corporality related to the tango figures, taking into account the attempts deployed to control the flow of their difference
Keywords:
Tango, gender, sexuality, body, 19th Century, Buenos Aires
Cecconi, S. (2021). Non-normativa corporalities and sexualities in brothel tango. Revista Punto Género, (15), pp.137–154. https://doi.org/10.5354/2735-7473.2021.64402
