[Tango-L] Update on another origin of the Milonga - Brasil
romerob@telusplanet.net
romerob at telusplanet.net
Sun May 4 11:44:42 EDT 2008
Missed sentence, has been now included
>They (blacks) arrived subsequently at at the Rio de la Plata because of the
war, and what comes from the mix of milonga habanera and candombe results in
Tango<
Thanks,
Bruno
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Diluted Origens
With the pass of time Tango has become a music style recognized in the whole
world, however when we spoke about the origins of tango it became a subject of
antagonism, because at determined time there was a negation of our political
and social history in our country. A culture was fabricated to showcase
immigrants and denying our past.
This is how the tango as an artistic expression was born through a process of
multicultural multiethnic mixing between the massive European immigration,
which settled in the Rio de la Plata and at the end of the 19th century and the
native population: where one third was black.
Paradoxically the tango was the result of the mixing and therefore was
considered the music of the dispossessed.
First, of all the places which congregated in a spontaneous manner, the
interchange of their cultural their cultural differences resulted in the Tango.
Of the black sources in tango, which Carlos Caceres considers the most hidden
part, the dance was born. This is the most popular expression of urban roots.
According to the musician, the first musicians and dancers were afro argentines
and afro Uruguayans. After the second half of the nineteen century they
distance themselves of their African heritage and cult to the voodoo and
macumba practices, and recovered the rhythm, and the candombe. Then, they
continue mixing spontaneously with the couple dances given as result the Cuban
habanera and the milonga at the south of Brazil.
>They (blacks) arrived subsequently at at the Rio de la Plata because of the
war, and what comes from the mix of milonga habanera and candombe results in
Tango<
Carlos Caceres recognizes that the tango primitivo is not related to the tango
nowadays, which he thinks has become a commercialized dance, and despite its
flaws, a music foundation of high quality has been created.
With the pass of time Carlos considers that this Tango music became
sophisticated and was made more European. It dressed up in tuxedo in Paris, and
afterwards returns to Argentina, and continues with its well know history. This
part of Tango is of least interest to Carlos Caceres, although his
interpretations are modern.
Author of reference
With 72 years of age Juan Carlos Caceres has become an obligated author of
reference for many artists inside and outside of Argentina, not only because of
his persistent research on the roots of tango, which he references in his
compositions as author and composer, but rather as the alma mater of the mythic
cave called Pasarotus. This is a jazz club and meeting point of revolutionary
tendencies in his native Buenos Aires.
In addition to an ample public in Europe and Asia, artists like Fito Paez,
Calamaro and the Makaroff brothers celebrate him dearly.
Nana García
Santa Cruz de Tenerife
http://www.diariodeavisos.com/diariodeavisos/content/290430/
In addition to an ample public in Europe and Asia, artists like Fito paez,
Calamaro and the Makaroff brothers celebrate him dearly.
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