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Jun 2021
25m 32s

El tango de hoy (Tango of Today)

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About this episode

Tango is Argentina’s most iconic cultural tradition. But for a hundred years, tangos have only been written from the perspective of men. The conductor of “La empoderada” or “The Empowered,” Argentina’s first all-female tango orchestra, is trying to change that.

A transcript of this episode is available at https://bit.ly/3KVdoRI.

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