Brick Robbins wrote: > > So you are suggesting that the DJ should ignore the Tango customs and > codas that members of this list, and Tangueros world wide, hold so > dear? > I don't hold them so dear that I feel a calling as a guardian of orthodoxy, and I'm a member of the list (and happen to live in this world, too).
Different social context, different customs. Or are you in favour of men in black customes cracking the whip each time someone asks someone else to dance instead of using the cabeceo? As I said the last time that kind of discussion, tandas are perfectly clear even *without* cortinas if you wish not to use them (if you have a set of four valses and then a long intro for something that is *evidently* not a vals and you don't get the point, no amount of hitting you over the head with a cluebat will help - I have used cortinas and seen some people dance "tango" on them, despite my attempts at making it as awkward as I could possibly do). The number of Argentines that have lamented the lack of cortinas when I happened to play music without using them can be counted on the fingers of zero hands. I have had complaints, but only of non-Argentineans wanting to overargentine the Argentineans. > That some resident of the United States should ignore the wisdom of > the Milongueros of BsAs Argument by authority. By the way, I dispute the fact that customs are, by definition, something "wise" to be worshipped regardless of consequences (and regardless of the social context). They're customs, not rites, unless you're seeing tango as a religion rather than as the social dance it is (even for those wise Argentines that live and breathe it). and try to improve upon or "Amercianize" the > way things are done in Argentina? Oh, and I'm not American - and in case you missed it, neither is Chris. -- Alexis Cousein [EMAIL PROTECTED] Senior Systems Engineer/Solutions Architect SGI/Silicon Graphics -- <If I have seen further, it is by standing on reference manuals> _______________________________________________ Tango-L mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/tango-l
