Primitive avant-gardes: tango, samba and poetry

Abstract

During the avant-garde tango and samba gave to Argentine and Brazilian artists and scholars the solution to the double and sometimes contradictory project. of the Latin American Avant-garde: its combination of cosmopolitanism and nationalism. In constructing tango and samba as a form of the nation, avant-garde artists and writers were choosing, at the same time both the national primitive product and the exotic and international form that had triumphed in Paris and New York. The avant-garde position vis à vis tango and samba allowed avant-garde artists and writers to establish lines of differentiation from other artistic traditions, finding in tango and samba the condensation of the paradox of modernization: it represented at the same time a resistance to modernization and a openness to it. This article studies this process of nationalization as the location of cultural negotiations and the articulation of cultural differences.

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Article in Spanish.