I think Steve's chart is reasonable. Taxonomies often have multiple overlapping branches, and we know that Tango always had cross fertilization, so I'm sure there is no single categorization scheme.
You can muddy things if you lump too much together or if you split things into too many sub-styles. Steve doesn't mention more detailed styles like Villa Urquiza, but I still don't know how VU differs from the tango of other neighborhoods. Sergio says VU is the same as Traditional Salon tango, but that ignores the other neighborhoods. The only main thing I disagree with is that for me Nuevo Tango is more of an analysis than a style, and doesn't have much to do with non- tango music. Someone asked whether "alterations" or "changes of direction" existed before nuevo. I'm sure they did either as individual passing steps or certain sequences like chains. What nuevo brought was a discovery of all the possibilities. On Nov 13, 2008, at 1:38 PM, Vince Bagusauskas wrote: > Is this relevant and accurate? > > http://www.tejastango.com/tangostyles.jpg > _______________________________________________ Tango-L mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/tango-l
