[Tango-L] Tango is Argentine

[c.roques@mchsi.com]

<<<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.>>>

Regarding the origins, the trail is being traced back to ridiculous extremes with this line of thought and is missing Sergio's very valid point; that is wasn't so much the original Indo/European cultures that produced tango.  It was the mixing together of these cultures once they were in the New World in a way that would not have happened back in the Old World. Tango did not come from those origins; tango is a New World product that came from Argentina. It is not a Sephardic or Indian folk dance. You can't just keep tracing back farther and farther. (The English language has roots in Sanskrit but that doesn't mean it is Indian.) If that were the case, you could carry this back to the Neanderthals and to the caves at Altamira (in Spain) and look for tangueros on the walls.  Hybridization occurs because of several factors, but place and time (and timing) are probably two of the most important ones.

Cheers,
Charles