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From Transnational Biographies to Transnational Cultural Space

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In this paper, I will analyse the recent revival of Argentinean tango as an example of a transnational cultural space. Based on biographical research with tango dancers both within and outside Argentina, I show how these dancers participate locally in what is also a global dance culture and what it means for their lives, aspirations, and sense of themselves in the world around them. I argue that developing a transnational perspective on tango requires not only understanding the dancers who move across national borders in order to dance, but also those who never leave home. A case will be made for rethinking the concept of transnational biography with an eye toward understanding the ways all of our lives are already and continue to be deeply interconnected with the lives of others across the globe.

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    Kathy Davis

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    Elisabeth Tuider

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Davis, K. (2018). From Transnational Biographies to Transnational Cultural Space. In: Lutz, H., Schiebel, M., Tuider, E. (eds) Handbuch Biographieforschung. Springer VS, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-18171-0_55

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