«Alguien le dice al Tango»: Borges, tango y milonga

• Autor: Susti Gonzales, Alejandro Enrico
• Formato: artículo
• Fecha de Publicación: 2023
• Institución: Universidad de Lima
• Repositorio: ULIMA-Institucional
• Lenguaje: español
• OAI Identifier: oai:repositorio.ulima.edu.pe:20.500.12724/18734
• Enlace del recurso: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12724/18734; https://doi.org/10.14198/AMESN.20553
• Nivel de acceso: acceso abierto
• Materia: Borges, Jorge Luis, 1899-1986; Tango (Baile); Milongas (Música); Literatura argentina; Cultura popular; https://purl.org/pe-repo/ocde/ford#6.02.03

This article examines the relationship between the work of Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) and two musical genres that appeared in the Río de la Plata at the end of the Ninenteen century and the beginning of the Twentieh century: Tango and Milonga. Considering some of the essays and testimonies given by the author, I intend to understand the attraction that Tango produced in him as well as his project of founding a mythical and imaginary past, «a Tango Mithology», based on its referents and figures. Concerning Milonga, assuming his notes on the role of music, instrumentation, an interpretation, I examine the connection between la milonga and la payada in his work Para las seis cuerdas (1965), and the invention of an absolutely personal «milonga poetics». Finally, I include the testimonies of several important figures in the history of Tango to establish the role Borges in it.