The Death of the Angel: Reflections on the Relationship between Enlightenment and Enchantment in the Twenty-first Century
Tango artist Astor Piazzolla’s composition, ‘La muerte del ángel’, serves as inspiration for a few reflections on the relationship between enlightenment and enchantment in the 21st century. Piazzolla wrote the fugue as accompaniment to a play, ‘Tango del angel’, about an angel who tries to heal brok...
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2011-01-01
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| description | Tango artist Astor Piazzolla’s composition, ‘La muerte del ángel’, serves as inspiration for a few reflections on the relationship between enlightenment and enchantment in the 21st century. Piazzolla wrote the fugue as accompaniment to a play, ‘Tango del angel’, about an angel who tries to heal broken human spirits in Buenos Aires and ends up dying in a knife fight. Drawing on tango’s melancholy, longing, and hesitant hoping, I share stories from my travels where I engage with the struggle to sustain an ethnographic art that brings heart to the process of knowing the world. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-35692bf9739f41cc81d3846bdc8201552022-12-21T23:58:25ZengFinnish Society for the Study of ReligionTemenos2342-72562011-01-0147110.33356/temenos.4618The Death of the Angel: Reflections on the Relationship between Enlightenment and Enchantment in the Twenty-first CenturyRUTH BEHAR0University of MichiganTango artist Astor Piazzolla’s composition, ‘La muerte del ángel’, serves as inspiration for a few reflections on the relationship between enlightenment and enchantment in the 21st century. Piazzolla wrote the fugue as accompaniment to a play, ‘Tango del angel’, about an angel who tries to heal broken human spirits in Buenos Aires and ends up dying in a knife fight. Drawing on tango’s melancholy, longing, and hesitant hoping, I share stories from my travels where I engage with the struggle to sustain an ethnographic art that brings heart to the process of knowing the world.https://journal.fi/temenos/article/view/4618 |
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