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How Argentines live through tango
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| 29 August 2009
Posted on 08/29/2009 3:41:19 PM PDT by JoeProBono
As Argentina deals with its latest economic crisis, [Candace Piette admires the tango industry's ability to survive through good times and bad.]
Tango is about national identity and every note of its music, every gesture of the dance, contains within it their history
All correspondents who come to Buenos Aires have to do a story about tango and this was going to be mine.
The reason for doing this one was the huge drop in income the tango business was experiencing, because of the global economic downturn.
Fewer tourists were coming to the city, and many of the tango shows were running at half their capacity. Some were closing.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.bbc.co.uk ...
TOPICS: Business/Economy
KEYWORDS: argentina; globaleconomy; southamerica; tango
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