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Los letristas del tango - Volver tango
"Los letristas del tango" is an episode of the Volver Tango documentary series about the people who wrote tango lyrics. It begins with the payadores, the improvising singers, and continues through the golden-age lyricists. It then turns to the 1960s generation and to contemporary poets who drew on tango.
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From Villoldo to Discépolo
The film presents Ángel Villoldo as an early lyricist who wrote words for his own tangos, among them El choclo. It credits Pascual Contursi with "Mi noche triste", written in 1916, and an interviewee argues that Contursi's contribution was the theme of lost love. The narration notes that Carlos Gardel made Celedonio Flores's tangos famous. Interviewees describe Enrique Santos Discépolo as the most literary of the lyricists, one who parodied the models that came before him.
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Manzi, Castillo and Troilo
The documentary treats Homero Manzi as a writer who made the barrio, the neighbourhood, and its people his subject, and it traces Evaristo Carriego's influence on his work. The narration says that around 1930 Manzi and Sebastián Piana renewed the milonga. Witnesses recall Cátulo Castillo working quickly with Aníbal Troilo. The film also covers Manzi's work in cinema and his part in the political group FORJA.
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Later generations
Interviewees present Homero Expósito as a metaphor-driven poet linked to the avant-garde. They name Horacio Ferrer as the writer who took up Expósito's lead in the 1960s. In the closing section, the film says the earlier pattern reversed and poetry began to borrow from tango lyrics. It cites Juan Gelman's book "Gotán" as an example. It also mentions Cortázar, Borges and Sábato, who tried writing tango lyrics themselves.
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