History
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Payadores on Record: The First Tango Recordings of Buenos Aires
Before tango had orchestras on record, payadores such as Gabino Ezeiza, Higinio Cazón and Ángel Villoldo sang the first tangos into the recording horn, and a collector's cassette brought those discs back.
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Phonograph vs Gramophone: How Cylinders and Discs Reached Tango
Edison's phonograph and Berliner's gramophone fought for the market for half a century, and both reached Buenos Aires in time to record the first tangos.
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Tango in 1913: How a Buenos Aires Newspaper Told Its History
On the night high society first danced tango at the Palace Theatre in 1913, an anonymous writer in the new paper Crítica set out to tell the public where the dance really came from.
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The Tango Revival of the 1980s: Trottoirs de Buenos Aires and Tango Argentino
The show Tango Argentino is usually credited with bringing tango back in the 1980s, but one of the founders of a small Paris tango café argued in 1996 that the revival began two years earlier, on his stage.