Joanne,
With apologies, just can’t help it and have to throw in a rock. :-) BTW, I like
to dance in close embrace. You came up with a very nice analogy, yet my way of
interpreting it would be that after all that crossbreeding the result still was
a horse, just better and faster.
I suggest that tango is imbedded in culture. Any comparatively sudden or
dramatic changes are not evolutionary. The only thing that does survive is
the name. I also believe that many use the term modern music and style,
instead of new music and style. Modernising music and style in my opinion,
is
I'm still not seeing the extinction or obliteration of tango.
Alberto says there were only 40 people dancing classic tango. I'm pretty sure
there are way more than 40 today.
Arabian horses are still around, correct?
Tango music has been changing since the 1940's. I've heard new music
My last comment. If over time, I keep adding more and more sugar to my
coffee, I'll either develop a taste for very sweet coffee or I'll stop
drinking coffee. Extrapolate this through a tango community and you retain
those with a sweet taste at the expense of those that don't. :)
Anton
On 16/04/11 02:29, Anton Stanley wrote:
My last comment. If over time, I keep adding more and more sugar to my
coffee, I'll either develop a taste for very sweet coffee or I'll stop
drinking coffee. Extrapolate this through a tango community and you retain
those with a sweet taste at the
--- On Fri, 4/15/11, Myk Dowling poli...@gmail.com wrote:
I see new students
learning tango, some of whom want to go the nuevo route and some of whom
want the traditional style.
I think part of this fear of extinction by some is how one describes the older
style of tango. I prefer to use
