Great suggestions Ron. Thanks,
Michael > > From: RonTango <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [Tango-L] Why are you dancing tango if you don't like > tango? > To: [email protected] > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 > > I?ve received several responses off-list with regard to these > statements. The counter-arguments that I?ve heard here and in other > discussions > with tango organizers is that playing non-tango music makes tango > accessible to > people who are not familiar with it and might not like it upon first > hearing it, > but that they will learn to like it later. It is true that some tango music > takes time and repeated listening to enjoy, but not all of it falls into > that > category. I believe that some part of the aversion to classic tango music > is a > dislike for the recording quality of the pre-1950s recordings. There is a > way > to get around that, as I discuss below. > > We may believe that playing neo-tango and non-tango music > will teach people to later enjoy the classic tango music that was created > for > dancing tango, but it is more likely that we will attract people who will > continue to want to dance to neo-tango and non-tango. Perhaps this accounts > for > the proliferation of ?alternative milongas? at the expense of traditional > milongas outside Argentina. > In some communities classic tango music represents a minority of the music > played > or dancing ?tango?. This is hardly an accurate representation of tango > argentino. > .......... _______________________________________________ Tango-L mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/tango-l
