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Several meanings on the recent past, symbolized by the concepts ‘reconciliation’ and ‘revanchism’, were constructed during the transition period. The aim was to maintain control of the process by a sort of continuation of fear by comparing the Brazilian dictatorship to the Argentinean one which imprisoned the violators of human rights. Current paper presents some preliminary results of a still going investigation on memory and transmission of experience on the civil-military dictatorship and State terrorism in debates prior to the Amnesty Law and during the parliamentary works of the National Constitutional Assembly. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Current analysis investigates certain aspects of the daily life of different social groups in the National Territory of the Chaco, in northern Argentina, during the period in which the latter had a huge attraction power. It was a consequence of the massive economic processes especially linked to cotton culture and its industrialization. Villages and towns emerged within the Territory in a short lapse of time. They harbored heterogeneous social communities with degrees of adaptation to the new environment. The paper deals with the way they related themselves socially and with the mechanisms linking labor activities with leisure within their adopted homeland. Interviews, depositions, newspapers, memoirs and information linked to this issue foreground the documental basis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

During more than twenty years, tango was despised by argentine young people, while its music, dance and poetry survived difficultly. But in the middle of the eighties of XX Century, the situation changed and tango started to return and gain the support of everybody. Today, tango lives an extraordinary moment all around the world, perhaps similar as that of the "golden forties". In these days, there are many orchestras and singers, and argentine record industry is not indifferent of this renascent. What has happened with tango in the postmodernism era and in the globalization state of culture? Why a musical culture that was considered old fashioned in the beginning of rock history is today listened, danced and also played by people under 30s? The present paper explores the relationship between tango and the universe of youngsters along the Argentine history, trying to understand the genealogy of this old/new romance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]