[Tango-L] A Pickpockets History of Argentine Tango

[Trini y Sean (PATangoS)]

Hello Victor,

I read your article yesterday and found it's use of lyrics
to convey the social aspects of the times interesting.  In
comparison, other histories of tango I have read seem
Disneyesque.  Until I finished reading the book on the
activities of the Zwi Migdal (last Wednesday, actually), I
might have thought your presentation on the aspects of
prostitution and poverty exaggerated.  I now know that it
is not.

Nowadays, many people present tango as somewhat highbrow. 
I've heard many comments about tango being a "thinking
man's" dance.  That its difficulty in learning makes it a
dance for a select few.  (It isn't but not because of the
difficulty.  Tango can be as simple or as difficult as one
wants it to be.)  It's nice to see a history that really
puts tango back in the streets.

Trini de Pittsburgh


--- La Pungista <apickpocketshistoryoftango at yahoo.com>
wrote:

> Hello People,
> 
>    I have posted a draft of a history of Argentine Tango
> for all to read, comment, criticize and suggest. 
> 
> www.geocities.com/apickpocketshistoryoftango
> 
>  Just send any of the above to so i can integrate your
> comments:
> 
> apickpocketshistoryoftango at yahoo.com
> 
> Thank-you.
>    
> 
>

PATangoS - Pittsburgh Argentine Tango Society 
Our Mission: To make Argentine Tango Pittsburgh's most popular social dance. 
http://patangos.home.comcast.net/ 



 
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