323  tango history correction

Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2001 00:03:52 -0800
From: Benjamin Koh <benkoh@STANFORD.EDU>
Subject: tango history correction

Manuel Patino responded privately to my post about tango history. In
answering his email I reread some of what I wrote and realized I made a
mistake regarding the male/female ratio in turn-of-the-century Buenos
Aires. Sorry! It wasn't 14:1, more like 2:1. Or more accurately, 54,474
foreign men and 23,572 foreign women in Buenos Aires in 1869. No idea
what the figures for the locals were.

For those curious about where I got this data, I wrote a short paper
comparing the rumba and the tango in the political context. The blurb
about tango history can be found online at:

https://www.stanford.edu/~benkoh/essay.htm#Origin and development of
tango

and the references I used to support my text are listed at:

https://www.stanford.edu/~benkoh/essay.htm#References

The thesis of the paper is my own conjecture based on my research and is
by no means authoritative, but the factual bits are drawn from other
published texts. Those interested in learning more may find these
references informative.

Benjamin