In the process of developing his masterful model of musical culture in the age of expediency luker addresses many aspects of musical life that have all too often been neglected by ethnomusicologists including the roles of ngos diverse kinds of media companies government policies and international cultural heritage projects his broad insights based on a rich multilevel ethnography of tango music in buenos aires in the twenty first century have implications for music throughout . The tango machine musical culture in the age of expediency chicago studies in ethnomusicology amazonde luker morgan james fremdsprachige bucher. In doing so it addresses broader concerns with how the value and meaning of musical culture has been profoundly reframed in the age of expediency where music and the arts are called upon and often compelled to address social political and economic problems that were previously located outside the cultural domain long hailed as argentinas so called national genre of popular music and dance tango has not been musically or socially popular in argentina since the late 1950s . Chicago studies in ethnomusicology format description book xiv 218 pages 23 cm subjects tangos argentina history and criticism popular music argentina popular music tangos argentina form genre criticism interpretation etc contents on the values of music in expedient argentina expedient soundings the genre culture of contemporary tango music contemporary tango and the . The tango machine musical culture in the age of expediency buy this book online published by university of chicago press author luker morgan james