Tango and Jazz in the Early 1900s

How American jazz influenced the development of tango from the very beginning

There is a common misunderstanding of tango that operates on two levels.

The first is the idea that tango is a uniquely Argentine folk music — a self-contained ethnic tradition without antecedents or external influences.

This is straightforwardly false, in the sense that tango as an identifiable musical genre emerged around 1890 out of the collision of se…