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La radio y el tango - Volver Tango
"La radio y el tango" is an episode of the Volver Tango documentary series about the shared history of broadcasting and tango in Buenos Aires. It mixes interviews with archival announcements and music. The film describes radio as a cultural phenomenon born in Buenos Aires, beginning with Enrique Susini's experiments. It follows the medium from its earliest broadcasts to the decline of live tango on the air.
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Early broadcasts
The narration dates the first Argentine broadcast to 27 August 1920, a performance of Parsifal from the Teatro Coliseo. Interviewees disagree about whether it was the first in the world. One says it was only the first in Latin America. The film places a two-hour tango programme on the air in 1924 and names Francisco Canaro, Azucena Maizani, Juan Maglio and Rosita Quiroga among its early performers.
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Tango as the star of radio
According to the film, tango became the main attraction of the live 'radio espectáculo'. It covers Radio El Mundo, whose building the narration says was the first built for a station. It also recounts Carlos Gardel's 1935 broadcast linking NBC and Buenos Aires, Julio Jorge Nelson's Ronda de Ases, and the Glostora Tango Club, which interviewees associate with Alfredo De Angelis. Weekend dance broadcasts and singing contests also feature.
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Decline and survival
The film says television and recorded discs replaced live performers on the radio, and the nueva ola weakened tango's place on the air. It says tango survived on record-and-commentary programmes such as those of Nelson and Osvaldo Martín, and it mentions FM Tango in 1990. Interviewees close by saying radio will never die.
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