2841  "Tango-milonga" means dance-party tango and "tango-cancion" means song tango.

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Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 15:31:12 -0700
From: Ming Mar <ming_mar@YAHOO.COM>
Subject: "Tango-milonga" means dance-party tango and "tango-cancion" means song tango.

The following quote is from
<https://www.abctango.com.ar/notas/2000/canaro.html>:

"Tango-milonga: estilo de tango apropiado para ser
bailado, se contrapone al tango-cancio'n, que se
destaca por su aptitud para ser cantado."

According to
<https://www.totaltango.com/acatalog/tango_milonga_vals_92.html>,
Francisco Canaro credited himself with coining the
term.

On a different topic (but also about tango terms),
have you ever noticed that the candombes on the web
don't sound anything like the candombes in the tango
world? That's because our candombes are actually
milongas inspired by candombes. This is according to <https://www.cyber-tango.com/art/mil.html>.






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