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Angora Matta: Fatal Acts of North-south Translation by Marta E. Savigliano (Paperback, 2003)

Angora Matta is a bilingual (Spanish/English) and interdisciplinary work that adopts performative writing to reflect on the transnational politics of culture. Part I is an introduction co-authored by a tango-opera librettist and a central character in her libretto, offering two contending versions of how this book came into being. Part II is the libretto for the tango-opera Angora Matta, a critical view of Argentina's contemporary history conceived as a surreal and tragic thriller. Part III contains feminist scholarly essays written by three other characters who appear in the libretto: Elvira Diaz is a dance ethgrapher disenchanted with her profession; Manuela Malva is a biting foreign-film critic invested in de-mystifying exotic renderings of the Argentine tango world; Angora Matta, the assassin for hire, closes the book with philosophico-poetic preoccupations about her profession. An invative blend of scholarship and art, Angora Matta is both critique of and antidote to the representational practices of ethgraphy that have fetishized other cultures by isolating them from contemporary history and the global flow of international politics.

Place of Publication
Hanover
Spine
17mm
Series Title
Music Culture S.
Content Note
36 Illus.
Author Biography
Marta Elena Savigliano is the author of Tango and the Political Economy of Passion (1995), which received the Congress of Research on Dance Award for Outstanding Book 1993-1996. She is an anthropologist and political theorist, and Professor in the UCLA Department of World Arts & Culture.
Date of Publication
31/07/2003
Genre
Sociology & Anthropology: Professional
Country of Publication
United States

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