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Tango's faster, older cousin — and the social where it is danced.
Music Genre and Dance Form of the Río de la Plata
2 min read
From the gaucho's pampa song to the partnered dance of the Buenos Aires suburbs
5 min read
Technique and Pedagogy
3 min read
The Buenos Aires pianist who, with Homero Manzi, turned the milonga into a modern urban song form
How a single Río de la Plata word came to name a song, a dance, and a gathering
The Río de la Plata and rural antecedents of milonga in the early history of tango
The Cuban figure at the rhythmic core of the Río de la Plata genre
Musical Foundations of Tango and Salsa
Dancing the habanera pulse — from the simple walk to the syncopated traspié
Descriptive Terms within the Vocabulary of the Milonga
Afro–Río de la Plata percussion and the disputed ancestry of a tango precursor
A Río de la Plata partner dance, its all-night gathering, and their place in tango
4 min read
Tandas, cortinas, the cabeceo, and the unwritten codes of the dance floor
Piana and Manzi's 1931 song created the milonga ciudadana — a new urban branch of the tango family
Sebastián Piana and Homero Manzi's milonga of the early 1930s and Carlos Gardel's defining 1933 recording
Key terms of the music, dance, instrumentation, and idiom of the Río de la Plata
The dispersed documentary record of a Río de la Plata genre and dance
