"Beach Tango, Brighton, ca. 1910."

ID: 5119 ~ Source: Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2014696447/. ~ Creator: P. Bain News Service.

This file appears in: The Tango Belt

Tango music swept the globe in the 1910s and 1920s.

This file appears in: The Tango Belt

The Tango Belt

By Brennon Slieff, Kathy Bradshaw, Courtney Carver & Charles Chamberlain

In the 1910s and 1920s, the Tango Belt was a popular entertainment section of the upper French Quarter, and where dance halls featured local jazz. Named after the Argentine dance that swept the globe in 1913, the Tango Belt spanned several blocks…