MIles wrote: <Tete is the originator of modern close embrace tango.>
Someone is seriously misinformed. This is absolutely false. There is no one originator. It is a by-product of the milongas over the years. Close embrace has been around for many years, long before Tete. And with all due respect for his contributions, Daniel Trenner is not the most reliable source for tango history either. He happens to be a savvy marketer who got involved in tango and was one of the first to record and "mass-market" tango dancers on film and are only part of the real historical trajectory of tango. It would be a serious mistake to base your knowledge solely on his information. As you read more and learn more, especially if you can obtain literature from Buenos Aires (usually in Spanish), you will find his knowledge somewhat limited and and his personal assessment of it a little myopic. Not that he hasn't helped disseminate valuable information, but I would be wary of using him as your primary source for learning about tango. Unfortunately no one else has been quite as successful in marketing and distributing videos so he has gotten some undue credit. It is a bit like the owner of one of the dance studios here in New York, who claims in a book to have introduced tango to the United States!!! If you read Spanish, (and the next time you are in Bs.As.) you might try to find Francisco Canaro's autobiography "Mis Memorias," or Luis Adolfo Sierra's "Historia de la Orquesta Tipica" or a copy of the magazine "Todo es Historia" from August 1974 which has an article on the history of the bandoneon. Or try to find copies of the video with Miguel Zotto about "Tango por Dos" which has some great historical snippets of some of the great milongueros. There are others but this is a good starting point. Cheers, Charles ************************************** See what's new at http://www.aol.com _______________________________________________ Tango-L mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/tango-l
