Reviews
"Sensational…skillfully combines anthropological research and analysis with a dancer’s passion for this most contentious of styles as she seeks to answer the question of whether there is such a thing as “tango nuevo” – a distinctly separate, new version of tango with different rules and devotees."
--Dance-Today
"Combines powerful descriptive prose and history to make for a definitive examination of how tango is evolving and changing today."
--The Midwest Book Review
"Not only is Carolyn Merritt a dynamic hybrid - American-born anthropologist, writer, and dancer - but so is her fascinating 'Tango Nuevo', part memoir, part academic study of the culture of Argentina's signature social dance."
--Dance Magazine
"An informative, well-documented, valuable study written in a spirited style and well illustrated...The fields of dance history, anthropology, and sociology need more literature like this. Highly recommended."
--CHOICE
"The passionate pull of the ever popular Argentine tango and its controversial evolution and spread throughout the modern world is explored in the lover’s embrace."
--Florida Times-Union
“A wonderfully engaging ethnography, Tango Nuevo guides us on a journey through identity investigation, physical frustration, and cultural confusion as we encounter the nostalgic world of Tango.”
--Thinking Dance
“An honest journey into the tango world of the twenty-first century. The book’s truthfulness, revealing the metaphysical transformation of a dancer and a scholar by the magic of tango, makes it an important contribution to dance studies, Latin American cultural studies, and global studies, and a wonderful read for all those who love tango.”
--Dance Chronicle
“The author’s beautiful style, along with her use of the first person, offers a powerful narrative that successfully turns the reader into an intimate witness of her vivid experiences.”
--The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology