[Tango-L] Tango is Argentine

AJ Azure azure.music at verizon.net
Thu Aug 6 14:03:03 EDT 2009


Which brings us back to my gypsy reference starting in India affecting the
Moors, melding with Jewish culture in Spain, up to eastern Europe and then
back, i.e. the spice trail.
_Adriel

> From: Ilene Marder <imhmedia at yahoo.com>
> Date: Thu, 06 Aug 2009 12:34:01 -0400
> To: Adriel Azure <azure.music at verizon.net>
> Cc: bettina maria fahlbusch <bettinamaria7 at gmail.com>, Sergio Vandekier
> <sergiovandekier990 at hotmail.com>, Tango-L <tango-l at mit.edu>
> Subject: Re: [Tango-L] Tango is Argentine
> 
> don't forget the eastern europeans who had enormous influence on the
> music... particularly the virtuoso violinists, not to mention the many
> eastern european lineage composers who gave us much of the music...
> 
> Ilene
> 
> AJ Azure wrote:
> 
>> If anything the sounds  hold their largest roots in Spain and Italy and then
>> in the middle east and India. Germany is by far the most removed of the
>> influences. You hear much more the gypsy and flamenco influence than you do
>> a  waltz or a polka.
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