> From: RonTango [email protected]
>In Buenos Aires,
> the birthplace of tango, near the end of the 19th century, there was milonga
> and
> there was the vals brought from Europe by immigrants, but there was no tango.
>
There appear to be different historical versions of this. My understanding is
that
milonga music predates tango - but only as music and song, without dance.
And that milonga, as a dance, came after tango.
Also, as I understand it, tango was well established by the end of the 19th
century
so I don't understand your statement that there was "no tango" near the end of
the
19th century.
Now that Tango has been declared an 'intangible cultural heritage', I think the
first
thing that should be done is for a group of tango scholars to write the
definitive
history of Tango.
Jack
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