[Tango-L] Tango is Argentine

[AJ Azure]

We're talking musical origin not dance origin. Apples and other apples ;)
The musical reference serves the point that new influence mutated the form
so in that sense it's the dance but, if you refer back I was talking about
the music. No one is saying that IS Indian or gypsy but, you can identify
stronger flavors in a style of fusion. It's about studying grades of nuance
not slap in the face obviousness in the music.
-Adriel


> From: <c.roques at mchsi.com>
> Date: Thu, 06 Aug 2009 18:58:09 +0000
> To: <TANGO-L at mit.edu>
> Subject: Re: [Tango-L] Tango is Argentine
> 
> <<<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
> 
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