单选题
The tango has probably traveled further and gone through more changes than almost
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. African slaves brought the tango to Haiti and Cuba in the 18th century; in Cuba, the tango was influenced by the local Cuban dance,
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"the Havana". From there
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took the tango in Argentina in the 19th century,
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it was changed once again and became popular in the
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. It was an erotic dance of working class people by this time.
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made it difficult for middle-class Europeans to accept.
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at the beginning of this century, the tango was refined, so that it
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its erotic features. It was preformed in
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casino ballrooms. The tango, in its sophisticated European
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, became popular in England and in the USA. Once
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, the tango became the rage in London and Paris. People began to
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the Viennese waltz custom of dancing in restaurants between the
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of a meal Proprietors
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this, "for the pleasure of the customers and for the benefit of their digestion"! After "tango teas"
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everywhere, even in private houses, Latin American music was played for the tango,
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more and more people owned gramphones.
The tango returned in
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in a freer, more exotic form than
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. Rudolph Valentino, the Holly-wood film star, began his
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as a professional tango partner in American tea-rooms. Valentino
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immortalized the dance on film.