[Tango-L] Tango Styles

[Tom Stermitz]

I think Steve's chart is reasonable. Taxonomies often have multiple  
overlapping branches, and we know that Tango always had cross  
fertilization, so I'm sure there is no single categorization scheme.

You can muddy things if you lump too much together or if you split  
things into too many sub-styles.

Steve doesn't mention more detailed styles like Villa Urquiza, but I  
still don't know how VU differs from the tango of other neighborhoods.  
Sergio says VU is the same as Traditional Salon tango, but that  
ignores the other neighborhoods.

The only main thing I disagree with is that for me Nuevo Tango is more  
of an analysis than a style, and doesn't have much to do with non- 
tango music.

Someone asked whether "alterations" or "changes of direction" existed  
before nuevo. I'm sure they did either as individual passing steps or  
certain sequences like chains. What nuevo brought was a discovery of  
all the possibilities.

On Nov 13, 2008, at 1:38 PM, Vince Bagusauskas wrote:

> Is this relevant and accurate?
>
> http://www.tejastango.com/tangostyles.jpg
>