1464  TANGO ????

Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2003 11:41:40 -0400
From: Antonio Cervila Junior <junior@CERVILA.COM>
Subject: TANGO ????

> I am Junior from Buenos Aires and I am living in New York.
> I don't use to write to the list, but I read some of the e-mails.
>
> I have a article of about 50 pages that tell the evolution of tango as a
> dance.
> In the begining of tango's history, There was the dance the compadritos
> imitated from the slaves camdomberos. They startad as a burlesque dance

and

> did it with everything that they played at that time.
> Polka, Zarzuela, Milonga, etc.. Then the mix of Habanera, Tango Andaluz

and

> Milonga criolla generate what we know as "tango".
> So at the beggining they did tango with music that was not tango. So why

not

> Led Zepplin?
> I use to say: If you have fun and don't hurt anybody in the dancefloor,
> everything is allowded.
>
> Junior
> www.latindancecarnival.com
>
>
>

Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2006 01:50:27 -0300
From: Janis Kenyon <jantango@FEEDBACK.NET.AR>
Subject: Electronic Tango ????

The March issue of B.A. Tango--Buenos Aires Tango (beginning its twelth year
of publication) has arrived in the milongas. Tito Palumbo has written the
following
opinion of electronic tango in his publisher's letter:

There is no "electronic tango"; there is electronic music. That is
conclusive and categorical. And I'll get straight to the point. The
so-called "electronic tango" which is causing an impact outside Argentina
and is expanding from abroad does not have any support in the River Plate;
it lacks a three-minute story.

That electronic music has nothing to do with "avant-garde tango," neither
can it be justified in Astor Piazzolla's compositions, who always made his
"city music" grounded in Buenos Aires. It lacks the structure and form of
the tango genre. Using the sampler to incorporate parts of true tangos by
no circumstances certifies it has been born in the "tango" family; it is not
even a bastard. It just does NOT belong to the family.

The aim to integrate electronic music with the Argentine youth that
approaches tango is related to a cultural orientation--globalizing,
homogenizing?--that tries to separate it from its origins, from its local
roots. The name "electronic tango" seems to have been chosen especially to
mislead nonexperts.

By no means is it acceptable to say that young people will start learning to
know real tango. Absolutely not. It is very difficult, not to say
impossible, that those intoxicated with that music may sometime be able to
appreciate tango.

The government of the City of Buenos Aires becomes an accomplice of strange
interests by including electronic music in tango festivals organized with
our money.


Tito Palumbo abatango@yahoo.com