[Tango-L] Piazzolla is not played at Traditional Milongas

[Barbra]

I bought the album, and I agree, not necessarily the 50 songs that I 
would find essential, but interesting and more than a few new ones for 
me.  I also haven't heard, so far, anything I would really dance to, 
but there are some very nice listening songs.

I don't know if anyone has experienced this - but I have changed a lot 
in how I think about tango music.  When I began, anything and 
everything was fair game, I danced to anything "tango" and a lot that 
wasn't.  Then, every song was measured against a "danceability 
standard."  Now, I find that I have two kinds of music, dancing and 
listening.....has this been the case for other folks?


-----Original Message-----
From: RonTango <rontango at rocketmail.com>
To: Steve Littler <sl at stevelittler.com>; Trini y Sean (PATangoS) 
<patangos at yahoo.com>
Cc: Tango-L <tango-l at mit.edu>
Sent: Fri, Aug 21, 2009 4:51 pm
Subject: [Tango-L] Piazzolla is not played at Traditional Milongas






----- Original Message ----

> From: Steve Littler <sl at stevelittler.com>
> Subject: Re: [Tango-L] Fw: Astor Piazzolla & 50 Essential Tangos for 
$1.99
starting tonight
>
> Well, I bought it and for me, I DON'T see it as essential for
> traditional dancers. The early stuff with Gardel is scratchy. The
> Piazolla is from a live album. A lot of the other stuff has more of a
> piano bar/jazz feeling to me. There is NOTHING in the collection that 
I
> have ever heard at a traditional milonga here in Florida. (Whenever I
> have heard a Piazolla tanda at a traditional milonga here in Florida, 
it
> was a studio cut - NOT a live cut.) Nuevo fans might find a few cuts 
they
like.
> El Stevito de Gainesville

Piazzolla is not played at traditional milongas - only tango music from 
the
tango dance orchestras of the 30s, 40s, and 50s, with an occasional 
tanda of a
modern orchestra (after 1960) playing in that style. This is what is 
played in
the overwhelming majority of milongas in Buenos Aires. It is the music, 
in part,
that defines a milonga as 'traditional', although using that label for 
a milonga
is as redundant as using 'Argentine tango' to describe the tango danced 
in
Buenos Aires milongas. The deviations from the cultural tradition are 
what need
the modifiers - 'alternative milongas' and 'nuevo (tango)'.

Ron
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