Huck, Now it’s my turn to be patient :-). I do agree that the fire resulted in a flurry of regulations. So the milonga definition might have been included – as an “earmark”? In 2006, the last time I was in Sin Rumbo, there were no young people. The last time I was in Sunderland, there were no young people. At the same time Villa Malcolm, La Viruta, Practica X, do not care about the “milonga” designation. They are happy to have practicas and their venues are packed. That’s where the young generation dances. ( Viruta has practicas going till 5AM ) Could that be considered a writing on the wall? That’s where the wisdom of BsAs city fathers, IMHO, comes in – they wisely chose the compromise to protect the milonga business. Jan P.S.: Shakhrukh recently pointed out an inconsistency: on the La Viruta web page they write “milonga”, nevertheless, I consider the schedule distributed at the venue to be controlling.
-------------- Original message from Huck Kennedy <[email protected]>: -------------- > On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 11:41 PM, wrote: > As Sergio Vandekier and Clay > Nelson, among others, patiently explained, Argentine tango has been evolving. > We should appreciate the wisdom of the Buenos Aires city fathers who > obviously recognized that evolution. Why did they set the > minimum of the traditional argentine tango music at 70% and not at 95% or > 90%? > > Because they wanted to be sure to include all milongas (no > matter how weird) under their new regulations after that disastrous > fire a few years back. I can assure you that these percentages had > nothing to do with "defining" Argentine culture, but rather enforcing > their new rules. > > Huck, "how's that for patiently explaining" > > _______________________________________________ > Tango-L mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/tango-l _______________________________________________ Tango-L mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/tango-l
