[Tango-L] What Do You Think? Milonga

[Keith Elshaw]

> Milonga pre-dated tango.
>
> The milonga we dance nowadays [2 beats to the bar, fastish ,as in Milonga
> sentimental] only goes back to the 30's. The pre-dating one was a slow
> dirge played by the payadores towards the end on the 19th Century and
> hardly ever danced to. Piazzolla revived it in the 50's as "Milonga
> Campera": "Oblivion", "Milonga del angel" &c....True. the milonga campera
> eventually became more lively & turned into tango - that could be danced.

All the above is, I'm afraid, reproduction of myth and mis-information.