[Tango-L] Screaming Tango singers

[Tango22]

Hey Keith,  you could be talking about dancers here.  Excuse the  
edits...
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> Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2009 13:31:27 -0400 (EDT)
> From: "Keith Elshaw" <keith at totango.net>

> ......... or because they just haven't enough confidence/experience/ 
> knowledge to get what a compelling DANCE is all about.
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> A great DANCER knows the difference between "power" and AGGRESSION.  
> But, one has to have finely-tuned ears and a calm, confident  
> disposition to find
> the right level.
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> The DANCER wanted to be/became the "star," as opposed to the DANCE  
> and the
> orquesta as it in in the music we all love to dance to.
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> Really, someone who FORCES is under-confident and should just calm  
> down.
> Don't "try" so hard...................
>

...............In their defence, I believe that when tango went into a  
kind of nose-dive
in the 50's, when arrangements changed to feature the singer right off  
the
top of the song instead of half-way through;.....................

Not so sure about this paragraph though.  Was there not always a  
singing genre of Tango?. (Tango Cancion - e.g., Gardel; Libertad  
Lamarque; Rinaldi etc., ) as well as the dance genre, where the  
vocalist mostly sings "the bridge", as you say, as part of the  
orchestra. (Was it Canaro who introduced the vocalist to dance music?   
I remember reading that somewhere).

Too many DJ's and dancers can not differentiate between Tango for  
dancing and Tango for listening (Tango cancion or Piazzolla's concert  
music).  The distinction is even more important today with so much  
experimental Tango /latin /  jazz / pop fusion.  DJ's must be very  
selective with modern music, but in my experience many will play any  
latin or rock beat, as long as it has a bandoneon in the mix and they  
can tag it Nuevo.
:)
John