"Dance Music" has a function and is "fairly" useless if it is not used as it was intended . I tend to try to think of those tunes in the context of the dance. I know some people that need to think of it as a race: "I'm the fastest on the block..." and we think " Meh, Beginner ....". Granted, the "proper" tempo tends to be pretty boring for non-dancers. Still, I think developing the habit of the proper (useful) tempo is always good. With no dancers, no audience, who cares? But there might be an unpleasant answer to the question of "Why no ...? " You reckon ? There are plenty of tunes that might be more of a challenge. I suspect that if you played 300 branles at "the proper speed" rather than just one at 300 BPM people would hafta quit calling you "beginner". (Ha Ha ?) One could develop that "taste", etc ... all sorts of wonderful things.
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