[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Yes it's an invasion. Maybe when they die and all their buddies die, > they would choose to be forgotten forever. And maybe not. > I concur with Chris that perhaps not all these old milongueros want to be forgotten like those who have already passed on.
There is a saying that "history is made by those who show up." If someone refuse to participate in making tango's history, he cannot turn around and complain his heritage has been hijacked away. My opinion of the videos that were made on old milongueros is that they are an invaluable documentation of a significant part of tango's heritage. There is no question their existence will help to connect future generations of tangueros to the past. If trgentina's ministry of culture produced these videos to capture a slice of the country's culture and traditions, everyone would have considered it to be as an honorable service to their country. But instead we ignore the big picture and haggle over if the milongueros got a fair deal from being featured in online videos which are not sold for money. In any case, that quarrel is only between the two parties who are involved in the videos, as in who owns the proper copyright in question. To my mind, there is absolutely no reason to condemn the existence of such documentation of the past, and every reason to be thankful they were made at all --- in exactly the same way I feel when I was able to see a film of an extinct animal species or a lost tribe on National Geographic channel today. Kace tangosingapore.com _______________________________________________ Tango-L mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/tango-l
