On 9/28/07, meaning of life <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > hello all > > after one more miserable practica, i am curious, am i the only person on > earth who finds much of the traditional tango music, whiney and uninspiring. > personally, i find my self spending most of my time looking for a beat and > inspiration in what usually sounds to me like a "bag of cats being > mistreated". given my choice, i love dancing to gotan project, and some of > the other "nuevo" stuff, as well as some "non-traditional" music, more like > west coast swing. am i alone in this and should just stay home? > > there is a posibility that the local d.j.'s and other selectors of music > just hate cats, or are tone deaf, or just play that crap just to get me to > leave. > > just curious
Uh, this is a joke, right? You're writing to a tango list expecting people to sympathize with your distaste for tango music? And thank you, Manuel, for your pointed response. Well stated, indeed. Assuming 'just curious' is serious, this attitude, which is not unique, represents an incredible paradox in tango which I believe exists in no other dance. Let's see, we hate the music on which the dance is based and we still want to call it tango? Can you imagine someone dancing foxtrot to salsa, salsa to country-and-western and Texas 2-step to tango? Other dancers in the genre would think you are mighty odd indeed. However, dancing tango to disco, house, trance, new age (elements present in neotango) or to rock and boleros is not considered odd by some, even preferred. What is really odd is that what makes tango so very very special is the music. A lot of other dance music seems so emotionally shallow in comparison, yet tango is so rich in entrapping you in the emotion of the vocalist, the bandoneon, the violin. Ask porten~os who dance tango and they will tell you that tango is all about music and emotion. The music they are talking about is the classic tango of Di Sarli, Canaro, D'arienzo, Calo, etc., not the vapid meanderings of Gotan, Libedisky, Wilensky and the like. It would seem to me that people who do not appreciate tango music but want to mimic tango steps to non tango music should call their dance by another name, lest we walk into one of their pseudo-'milongas' and feel the ultimate disconnect between the passion we feel from tango and the blasphemous music stealing its name. Ron _______________________________________________ Tango-L mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/tango-l
