[Tango-L] "Alternative" Music....

[astrid]

Great posting, Deby. I may delete a lot of other stuff while diagonally
browsing throug but yours I always read in deatil and with greart pleasure !

Manuel informs us:
"Personally, I'm very proud of my non-aryan, Spanish-American
heritage. I'm not a stiff, rule-following tango dictator"

That's a sweet things to say, Manuel. The stuff people come up with to
publish on tango-l never fails to surprise me at times (or not).
I may be a whole lot more "Aryan" than you, minus the blonde and all that,
but I completely agree with what you said in an earlier posting. See below:

>Argentine tango is a very specific dance done to
> very specific music. I love the music, I love the lyrics and the melodies.
...One can easily do half turns to the left and right, ocho
> cortado and other tango steps to the rhythm of Bachata and Salsa. The
> problem for me is that the whole flavor of the tango is missing along with
> the tango music.

Astrid ; )

P.S.
Calling a tango dancer a nazi is like calling a smoochie romantic dance
"zen".