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Tango's dance styles, festivals and other topics, each page with its sources.

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    Finnish tango

    Tango reached Finland in 1913 during the European craze and was initially danced by urban bohemians before Finns began composing their own songs in the 1930s.

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    Tango in Berlin and Germany

    Tango reached Berlin in 1913 after its Paris success, producing a short-lived “Tangofieber” marked by tournaments, commercial products, and imperial disapproval before wartime r...

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    Tango in Italy

    Tango arrived in Italy in 1913 via Paris and quickly took root in Milan, where Baron Antonio De Marchi and local orchestras helped popularize both the dance and a local song rep...

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    Tango in Japan

    Tango first appeared in Japan through North American dancers in 1914 and was later popularized among the aristocracy by Baron Tsunayoshi Megata after he studied the dance in Par...

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    Tango in London and the UK

    The Argentine tango reached London via Paris and achieved peak popularity during the 1913 tangomania, with theatrical performances, tango teas in hotels and restaurants, and wid...

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    Tango in Paris

    Argentine tango arrived in Paris in the early 1900s through traveling musicians and dancers from Buenos Aires, sparking the 1911–1914 tangomania that transformed it into a Europ...

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    Tango in Russia

    Tango reached the Russian Empire in the early 1910s, faced official bans in 1914 and again under early Soviet authorities, yet continued in private settings and produced a disti...

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    Tango in the USA

    A Europeanized form of tango reached New York in 1913 through Vernon and Irene Castle’s Broadway appearances, producing a brief national craze before declining with the rise of ...

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    Tango in Turkey and Istanbul

    Tango reached Istanbul in the early 1910s and was promoted as a symbol of Westernization under the early Republic, with Mustafa Kemal Atatürk associated with ballroom dancing th...

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    Tango in Uruguay (Montevideo)

    Tango developed in the working-class port neighborhoods of Montevideo alongside Buenos Aires from the late nineteenth century, drawing on Uruguayan candombe, milonga, and habane...

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    The cabeceo, tanda and cortina: milonga codes

    The cabeceo is the traditional nonverbal method of inviting a partner at a milonga through eye contact and a nod.

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    UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage inscription of tango (2009)

    On 30 September 2009 the Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage, meeting in Abu Dhabi, inscribed tango on the Representative List o...