[Tango-L] Women dressed as men in tango

[Sergio Vandekier]

"Quite the contrary - the foreign public was fed all the stereotypes,
almost exclusively. It is only in the last ten years or so that a more
systematic research has been done. Your ideas are/were generally
accepted, that is correct - there are a few well-known books written
by the early tango historians (with few references to primary sources)
that get quoted over and over (and that sometimes quote each other).
But we have moved now beyond what they knew or believed in, and we
have the benefit of more systematic research and more years of
knowledge and investigations."

Konstantin I wrote about Tango history in Tango-L and for newspapers and 
magazines since the early 1990s.

I invented nothing, what I have said was based in my own experience as I was 
growing up in Buenos Aires, in my discussions with tango historians 
themselves or with members of my family and friends that had lived the facts 
by them explained; also in readings and in the knowledge of Argentine 
Culture and history in general.

I wrote under the names; Sergio Suppa, Cachafaz and Sergio Vandekier).

All along these years I run into foreigners (never one Argentine) that 
disputed historical facts as generally accepted basing their conviction in 
their own deductions and beliefs or in books written by foreigners.  They 
were mostly Europeans or from Latin America.

Disgusted with this situation I finally decided to quit writing in Tango-L, 
in my own stupidity I thought it was interesting to share this little known 
fact of  tango women dressing as men, big mistake!

I thank you and all the foreigners that did a "systematic research of our 
history" never mind the arrogance of believing that we are totally unable of 
knowing or investigating our own history.

Here I must concede the fact that tango, having being considered something 
"depicable, proper of the lower classes" was neglected as a subject of study 
by Argentine intelectuals. Despite of this we could paper the road from here 
to the moon with all that has been written about our popular dance and 
music.

Summary it is best not to write about the following subjects: Tango History, 
Gender roles in tango, Tango Styles.  If you do you will get tangled in a 
discussion that will never end.

Have a good day, Sergio

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