Down in Buenos Aires, where white slave traders really did exist and were often Jewish, girls—often Jewish but also Italian and Spanish—were taken from their homes or the streets and hustled into bordellos, in a seaport town where lots of sailors brought lots of business and where there was lots of time to learn very complicated steps. Stravinsky wrote the tango in L’Histoire du Soldat in 1918; the high society in New York was frequenting low society, where people tangoed starting in 1913 to 1915, mingling with the hoi polloi. It was a ribbon through that time, tango, the way blues became
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