[Tango-L] Milonga music mix

jb34528@att.net jb34528 at att.net
Wed Apr 29 02:41:54 EDT 2009


As Sergio Vandekier and Clay Nelson, among others, patiently explained, Argentine tango has been evolving. We should appreciate the wisdom of the Buenos Aires city fathers who obviously recognized that evolution. Why did they set the minimum of the traditional argentine tango music at 70% and not at 95% or 90%? Accordingly, these days, an event called milonga should offer traditional tango music as well as some of the late music ( say Libedinsky, Gotan, etc ) and even offer some non-tango music to experiment with. Madeleine Peyroux or Frank Sinatra come to mind, e.g. No need for segregation into afternoon(!) neo-milongas or alternative milongas.
Jan



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