Piazzolla is never played at the traditional milongas. But... the traditional milongas are dying, along with the people to whom they meant something. Authentic Argentine tango is either dead, or will be soon We can't go home.
Why try to build a shelter from a nuclear attack? Why would you want to survive?! To dance authentic Argentine tango, of course. Alone. What difference does it make what music is played at the milongas these days, since most people can't really dance to any of it? Piazzolla, D'Agostino - different temperamentally and equally complicated. So who cares what is being played?! And many are just projecting their own fantasy of the past, having heard all about it. One can waste a lifetime sitting there in the milongas in BsAs or any place else in anticipation of a glorious tanda, which never arrives, or if arrives, in anticipation of a glorious partner for the next tanda, or, if that does not happen, in anticipation of another milonga the next day. Piazzolla is bad if one can't dance to it. So is D'Arienzo and all the rest, so it might as well be Piazzolla. I say, to hell with the rules if they have no meaning. When men and women have stopped being men and women and became amoebas ready to dance to anything in any role, why try to save anything? You can't play a game where the players don't agree on the rules. And now I will go and swallow some anti-sarcasm drugs. Nina _______________________________________________ Tango-L mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/tango-l
