c. 1880
The Tango Emerges
Buenos Aires · Argentina · Cultural · The Modern Age
The story
Habanera, milonga and candombe collided in the bars of La Boca, producing a dance first scorned as lowlife entertainment.
Paris embraced it before the Argentine elite did; by the 1910s tango was a global craze and a national soul.
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