Encyclopedia of Tango Gabriel Valiente 9781496083173 Books
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Tango, declared cultural heritage of Buenos Aires in 1998 and intangible cultural heritage of humanity by the UNESCO in 2009, is probably the only cultural manifestation throughout history that embodies music, dance, and poetry. This encyclopedia gives a detailed account of tango recordings before, during, and after the golden age of tango, along with tango orchestras, musicians, and singers.
Encyclopedia of Tango Gabriel Valiente 9781496083173 Books
Very nice research tool of the most famous orchestra/group leaders of Argentine Tango and their discography. However, the key word is "most", as it doesn't have all of them. It also lacks some famous composers. Don't buy this book as a dictionary for tango terminology, either. As it is an book of the composers & their music. The book also lacks a thorough history of the composers and merely gives a paragraph about them to introduce their music. Wikipedia gives a more in depth history of these orchestra leaders, vocalists, and composers. In summary, it lacks a lot of information if you are looking for a "go to encyclopedia".Product details
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Encyclopedia of Tango Gabriel Valiente 9781496083173 Books Reviews
Gabriel Valiente's Encyclopedia of Tango is an invaluable resource for tango DJs and collectors. The book provides complete or near-complete discographies of about 150 of the most important tango orchestras, with information about vocalists, genres, labels and recording dates. It also includes hard-to-find details about the musicians that played in many of these orchestras at different periods. I encourage anyone who is serious about tango music to get a copy of this excellent book.
(If do you get the book, please check this page for list of errata http//goo.gl/enjRSd)
If you want to make sense of the recorded output of the main tango orchestras, some of which had careers spanning four decades or more, then you need to know the dates of the recordings. For a long time, the only way to access this information handily was with the printed discographies published in Buenos Aires. These were always hard to obtain and are now mostly out-of-print. Gabriel Valiente has here undertaken the enormous job of collating all this information in this mighty reference work, which is not so much an encyclopedia as a data book. He has also included information about the line-up of the orchestras over time, which can give further insight into their development.
With a conventional discography you get the names of the composers, the number of the original disc and, where known, the number of the matrix, i.e. the original physical recording. All this is missing because of space constraints. I quite understand this, but I do miss the lack of an index number for the entries of each orchestra. This makes it difficult to refer to recordings or to compare this discography with others.
Some recording dates, e.g. those of the TK label in the early 1950s, have long been unclear to researchers and I would have appreciated some information about which sources were used in such cases - that would make this work even more useful.
Gathering all the information in this book must have taken many many years, and it's clearly a labour of love. The published work functions as intended as a reference work, but suffers a bit from a lack of professional help in the design and layout, which could be improved without increasing the number of pages. I also didn't really understand the purpose of the introduction, which amongst other things, lists the compositions of the leaders of the "big four" orchestras.
These are small criticisms and I have found myself reaching for this work regularly in the weeks since my copy arrived. This is not a book for the casual reader, but a resource for those studying tango music. As such, it is much needed, and I think we will soon all be wondering how we managed without it.
I also think it's much too cheap. Gabriel tells me that his aim was not to make any money but to make the book affordable, so that every tango DJ can afford a copy. At this price, it's a steal, and deserves to be on every tango DJ's bookshelf.
In the book's selling statement , it's mentioned that it contains poetry which we as tango lovers would like to know or read about. The book is not about that. It's simply a DJ's lists of songs with dates.
All the tango recordings in one place for easy lookup. I carry it with me to search for singer, orchestra and year
This is definitely a must-have for every Tango DJ. Here you find all the recordings of the Tango-orchestra's in chronological order with the musicians and singers. Searching recordings in alphabetical order however will cost you much time.
A very handy reference book for recorded tango music.
Good tool for everyone interested in tango music, Not exhaustive, but still handy one for a tango dj.
I bought a kindle edition. A week ago I found out that search tool is not active any more. Previously it worked perfectly.
Very nice research tool of the most famous orchestra/group leaders of Argentine Tango and their discography. However, the key word is "most", as it doesn't have all of them. It also lacks some famous composers. Don't buy this book as a dictionary for tango terminology, either. As it is an book of the composers & their music. The book also lacks a thorough history of the composers and merely gives a paragraph about them to introduce their music. Wikipedia gives a more in depth history of these orchestra leaders, vocalists, and composers. In summary, it lacks a lot of information if you are looking for a "go to encyclopedia".
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