[Tango-L] Tango is Argentine

AJ Azure azure.music at verizon.net
Wed Aug 5 13:00:15 EDT 2009


One word jazz. Totally American in its' roots melded also a fusion music.
Ok two words rock and roll. Make that three and four bluegrass and blues.
All a product of fusions all distinctly American. Which is the definition of
cultural fusion being an immigrant based country.
That's why the tango is Argentine. It is what is known in the
ethnomusicological field as colonized people's music. The circumstances in
play to create each unique fusion would not have been present in any other
part of the world based on our history as a species. Consider it the musical
equivalent of Darwin's evolutionary concept.
_AJ





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