![Summary "Sfera Politicii" 108/2004](/api/image/getissuecoverimage?id=picture_2004_1587.jpg)
Keywords: Tango; Zaraza; import; Cristian Vasile; interbellum;
The paper traces back the origins of the Argentine Tango to the barrios of Buenos Aires discussing the alterations that have transformed it into a selling product, enlarging upon the essential differences between the traditional tango and the “domestic” versions of it. The controversial myth of “Zaraza” is linked to the rise and fall of “the last troubadour”, Cristian Vasile, and paralleled by the glory and decay of the aristocratic, opulent interwar Bucharest, buried under the ruins of the Second World War bombings.
More...Keywords: Theodor-Cristian Popescu;Surplus of People or Surplus of Ideas
Melinda Kiss writes about a Romanian book: the director and teacher Theodor-Cristian Popescu published his doctoral thesis in a volume. The book entitled Surplus of People or Surplus of Ideas. The Pioneers of the Independent Movement in Romanian Theatre after 1898 Popescu studies tendencies of independent theatre after the change of regime, focusing mainly on Bucharest events seen from the double perspective of the participant and the analyst. The particularity of he book is that the second edition is vailable on LiterNet.ro, to be downloaded.
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