[Tango-L] Milonga Rules, Nazism, and the Preservation of Tango Culture

[Alberto Gesualdi]

Some time ago (october 11th)  I send a letter to the editor , local Buenos Aires newspaper La Nacion, on the subject of tango inmaterial heritage acepted by Unesco. I will translate the letter .

Alberto

 
Tango rioplatense
 
Mr. Editor: 
"The inclusion of tango, based on the joint petition of Argentina and Uruguay , on the list of world inmanent heritage of Unesco, makes almost useless to keep discussing the geographical area of tango.
 
Both countries , in a brotherhood gesture from their representatives of the cities of Buenos Aires and Montevideo , agreed that tango was born on the basin of the Rio de la Plata, among the popular social classes of the cities of Buenos Aires and Montevideo.
 
In this region, where a mixture happened of european emigrants , descendants from african slaves and natives (criollos) , a melting pot of cultural pattens, beliefs and   rites  happened,  being transformed   into a  specific cultural identity.
 
Within this identity, the characteristics  that emerge in music , dance and poetry of tango , are in turn, an incarnation and vector of a diversity and cultural dialogue.
 
Coming from this origin, it is acknowledged and greeted , that it has been difussed all over the world, and that now , it belongs to everybody , or to nobody , since it is related to mankind.
 
In what is essential, tango is born and reproduces, on those that value and appreciate it, live where they live, in this planet.
 
Alberto Gesualdi
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