The Song Tells Its Story

The Song Tells Its Story (Spanish: El canto cuenta su historia), sometimes The Tango Tells Its Story, is a 1976 Argentine musical film directed by Fernando Ayala and Héctor Olivera.[1] The film tells the history of song in Argentina, with a particular history of tango.[2]

The Tango Tells Its Story
SpanishEl canto cuenta su historia
Directed byFernando Ayala
Héctor Olivera
Release date
  • 1976 (1976)
CountryArgentina
LanguageSpanish

The film was made during the period of the Argentine military dictatorship. The censorship of the regime forced Olivera and Ayala to cut scenes featuring the banned and exiled singer Mercedes Sosa.[1]

The film should not be confused with The Tango Tells its Story, (Spanish: El tango cuenta su historia) released in 1914, a documentary history of the tango.[3]

Cast

Musical performers

Musicians performing in the film are:[4]

Some of these performances are archive footage from other films of notable singers.[5]

References
  1. Jean Graham Jones, "Héctor Olivera", pp. 1764–1767 in, Derek Jones (ed), Censorship: A World Encyclopedia, Routledge, 2001 ISBN 1136798641.
  2. Marilyn G. Miller, Tango Lessons: Movement, Sound, Image, and Text in Contemporary Practice, p. 29, Duke University Press, 2014 ISBN 0822377233.
  3. Alfred Charles Richard, Contemporary Hollywood's Negative Hispanic Image, p. 280, Greenwood Press, 1994 ISBN 0313288410.
  4. Jeff Todd Titon, Timothy J. Cooley, David Locke, David P. McAllester, Anne K. Rasmussen, David B. Reck, John M. Schechter, Jonathon P.J. Stock, R. Anderson Sutton, Worlds of Music: An Introduction to the Music of the World's Peoples, p. 402, Cengage Learning, 2009 ISBN 1111807256.
  5. Armando Rapallo, Fernando Ayala, p. 28, Centro Editor de America Latina, 1993 (in Spanish) ISBN 9789502531595.


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