I have been reading the paper that Andy Ungureanu mentioned in his previous
post.
This paper is an annalysis of the milonga codes, as a kind of "non written
codes for the everyday life" , the kind of legal contract we called here in
Buenos Aires " ad hoc" , for instance, when taking a bus or a taxi cab, just by
paying the ticket or the fare , there is a tacit agreement within the passenger
and the driver, that in case of accident, can be used as ground for a legal
claim. A non written contract.
This french paper is not bad , I found it amusing . On the core of the work, it
is not about milonga codes on itself, but as a reference for this author, to
explain how non written codes, within a legal frame , are being done..
The sources quotes for non written legal codes , are good, some legal works of
Jutras, Reisman and Mac Donald, concerning this subject of non written
contracts in the everyday life.
I will translate a part of the paper, that i found interesting , on page 3. I
am not deeply fluent in french language, but like to read french authors, and
this writer of the paper, Fredric Megret, from University Mc Gill from Canada,
writes in plain french ( not dialect ) , is understandable. I am trying to
follow his comments, as best as possible
alberto
" Ours, will be an attempt to define the essential structure of the Milonga
Codes, as a system of laws or reulgations, to be able to appreciate the value
of its origin and purpose. With that aim, we will try to understand the
characteristics of the normative system "milonga" and the inherent
characteristics related to tango as a dance on itself, so to be able to
annalyze furthermore the nature of the social regulations an the role of
normatives, based on an agenda of research consisting in an understanding of ,
how instituzionalized legal orders and everyday life can be understood in each
other´s terms (Jutras ,2001, Legal dimensions of everyday life, p.51).
As a system of laws, the Milonga codes are an attempt to answer a regulation
dilemma. A regulation dilemma is a dilemma born out from the need to regulate a
social order. It consists in a knowledge an choose on what kind of values, what
kind of purposes, and into what extent , such a regulation code would have to
operate.
The codes , are conceived to be comprehensive of the particularities of the
specific environment where they apply , that who is going to be regulated. The
milonga , as a site of regulation , presents many specific aspects. At the same
time, the milonga reveals at the same time, the dance and the socialization.
The tango rioplatense, is different from the stage tango due to their social
aspect; and also it is different for the particularities of the dance, from a
simple social gathering. In other words, the tango is here , more than a
certain name to a cultural reference, but a kind of tango atmosphere where the
tango is danced in a discreet fashion ( in a kind of environment of folklore
expression) ,which is an integer part of social dance..
What is the dilemma for the regulation or codes for milonga ? It is more than
one dilemma , to be a manifold set of dilemmas, that could be sinthetized as
follows:
- How can a fairly large number of people , dance in a limited space, allowing
the development of intimacy, the co living and the keeping of forms of dance in
harmony ?
- How can be done an inner area in an social universe that is motioned by
individualities in contradiction, such as egoism ,the wanting for encounter,
the competence, love, jealousy, erotic , ambition, oniric dreams and sensuality
?
- How is it possible to do, with a social scope that is remarcable wide due to
the diversity of ages , social position and cultural origins ?
- How is it possible, at last, to make perdurable a social phenomenon that has
to adapt itself in order not to be a fossile / elephant cemetery , being at the
same time , persisting alongside the evolving time line, without loosing their
original authenticity ?
The answer to all this questions is the purpose of milonga codes , a rich
heritage of regulations, transmitted from generation to generation, maybe not
totally clear , maybe barroque , and generally , difficult to be revealed and
to access.
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