[Tango-L] Acanyegado

[Sergio Vandekier]

Igor asks about Piazzola's music and the term "Acanyegando".

IMO "acanyegando" is a mis-spelling of the word "Acanyegado" this last one 
meaning similar to canyengue, canyengue-like.

As you know "Canyengue" is a style of tango danced before 1920, more 
informal than the Salon Style danced today.

It was a style without preoccupation for the sobriety or elegance that is 
present today.

It was danced to tangos written in a form closer to its ancestral "milonga" 
.Typical examples "El Portenito", "el esquinazo" o even "el choclo" or music 
like the one played by "Los tubatango", "Los Muchachos de antes" and some 
played by Francisco Canaro, for instance , just to name a few.

Summary Piazzola "acanyegado", IMO. means closer to that type of music as 
exemplifyed above.

“Canyengue” significa el estilo de tango danza porteño, caracterizado por la 
improvisación, los cortes y quebradas, que confieren al baile una identidad 
más informal, sin la preocupación por la sobria y rígida plástica de la 
elegancia “tanguera” tan exigida en los salones. Era el tango que se bailaba 
en las calles de Buenos Aires, más precisamente en los alrededores de la 
ciudad, lejos del centro, en las zonas periféricas y suburbios, de ahí el 
nombre “orillero”, que proviene de “orillas” o sea, los bordes, los 
confines, los alrededores de la ciudad.


Best regards, Sergio

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