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Librotango: Volume 1

by Jake Spatz , Beatriz Dujovne
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Book cover type: Hardcover
  • ISBN13: 9781937620233
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Charles & Wonder LLC
  • Publisher Imprint: Charles & Wonder LLC
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 162
  • Original Price: USD 29.95
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 341 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Lyrics

Librotango, Vol. 1, kicks off this series of singable translations with "Milonguita," one of the most influential tangos in the genre, whose words and images echo through the songbook. Among many other giant hits, this volume includes "Mano a mano" (Fair and Square), "Madreselva" (Honeysuckle), "Cambalache" (Hockshop), "Nostalgias," "Gricel," "Tinta roja" (Red Ink), and "Malena"---for a complete list, see the image of the back cover.

Spatz, Jake: - Jake Spatz is a poet, freelance editor, and independent scholar, whose work as a literary translator focuses on Italian poetry and Argentine tango. His verse translations of tango lyrics have been featured regularly since 2020 on the radio program Bienvenidos al tango, broadcast weekly on WOWD-LP, Takoma Park. He has also presented his research on tango lyrics and their cultural background in a series of lectures, sponsored by the Philadelphia Argentine Tango School. He is translator of the Cantos of Giacomo Leopardi (2022) and editor of the Complete Poems of James Thomson (B. V.) (2012). His translations also include selections from Dante and modern Italian poets, and his singable translations include selections from operas by Mozart, Rossini, and Puccini. He studied literature, philosophy, and filmmaking at Sarah Lawrence College (BA, 1999), and founded TangoDC in 2005. He currently teaches and runs tango events in Washington, DC.

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