ABSTRACT
This chapter gives an overview of the parallel development of tango music and dance until the 1950s and follows the processes of separation in the second half of the twentieth century. The country of Argentina prospered by focusing on agricultural exports, and while resources were plentiful, workers were not. In the late 1910s, the smoother, slower tango that returned from Paris to Buenos Aires initiated a discourse in Argentina about this new style, which was no longer considered to be the original. The time for international tango travel had arrived: tango teachers from Argentina were invited to teach abroad, and enthusiastic students started to travel to Buenos Aires to learn tango dancing there. When tourism in Argentina started to grow in the 1990s, it was strongly connected to tango and its practice in Buenos Aires.
