-------------------------------------------------- From: "Shahrukh Merchant" <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, April 25, 2009 3:46 AM To: <[email protected]> Subject: [Tango-L] La Viruta, Definition of Milonga
> > Hmm, I wouldn't dare to pretend to come up with the definitive answer, > but I certainly would not trust a bunch of bureaucrats to do so! It's > the same group that defined a milonga so narrowly that several milongas > briefly stopped playing the traditional occasional tanda of chacarera or > rock-and-roll or "tropical" and in some cases even CORTINAS because they > were afraid the Tango police (and we are talking about real police now) > would close down the milonga and/or cause them to lose their > preferential designation as a cultural event. > My thanks to the person who sent me this link http://www.cedom.gov.ar/es/busca/ A search of which (I and a couple of others) did can find Ley Nº 2323 that says in part: 10.7.2 Características específicas. Son parte fundamental de la estructura de las milongas la tanda de tango, milonga o vals, la tanda de otros ritmos, la cortina y la actuación o número vivo. A efectos de esta ley se entiende por tanda el conjunto de cuatro o cinco piezas bailables del mismo ritmo pertenecientes a una misma orquesta o a varias de similar estilo. La cortina es el intervalo entre tandas en una milonga. Indica próximo cambio de ritmo o de orquesta y descanso a los bailarines. La actuación o número vivo puede estar a cargo de un grupo musical u orquesta que ejecutan su repertorio para que el público baile. También puede consistir en la exhibición de una o varias parejas, de ritmos afines con el tango, para lo cual se deja la pista libre. La oferta musical de cada jornada deberá ser al menos un 70% de ritmos de tango, milonga y vals. Nothing there about 2-1-2-1 tandas or in full Ley or in further searching. But what does the 70% mean? Does that allow 30% "tropical" or "folk"? Does that not also mean that Tango fusion practicas can reclassify themselves as milongas, where they play Golden Age music in the majority? Vince _______________________________________________ Tango-L mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/tango-l
