Changing Performance Practices

Why listen to 1920’s tango

When we study tango music, we tend to focus on the so-called ‘golden era’ or epoca de oro (EdO) recordings of the 1940’s.

However, the 1940’s was already relatively late in the development of tango music.

Some people actually regard the 1910-20’s as the real golden era of tango.

In order to understand what we’re listening to today we need to understand th…