[Tango-L] french written paper on milonga codes

[Alberto Gesualdi]

I have been reading the paper that Andy Ungureanu mentioned in his previous post.
This paper is an annalysis of the milonga codes, as a kind of "non written codes for the everyday life" , the kind of legal contract we called here in Buenos Aires " ad hoc" , for instance, when taking a bus or a taxi cab, just by paying the ticket or the fare , there is a tacit agreement within the passenger and the driver, that in case of accident, can be used as ground for a legal claim. A non written contract.

This french paper is not bad , I found it amusing . On the core of the work, it is not about milonga codes on itself, but as a reference for this author, to explain how non written codes, within a legal frame , are being done..

The sources quotes for non written legal codes , are good, some legal works of Jutras, Reisman and Mac Donald, concerning this subject of non written contracts in the everyday life.

I will translate a part of the paper, that i found interesting , on page 3. I am not deeply fluent in french language, but like to read french authors, and this writer of the paper, Fredric Megret, from University Mc Gill from Canada, writes in plain french ( not dialect ) , is understandable. I am trying to follow his comments, as best as possible

alberto

" Ours,  will be an attempt to define the essential structure of the Milonga Codes,  as a system of laws or reulgations, to be able to appreciate the value of its origin and purpose. With that aim, we will try to understand the characteristics of the normative system "milonga" and the inherent characteristics related to tango as a dance on itself, so to be able to annalyze furthermore the nature of the social regulations an the role of normatives, based on an agenda of research consisting in an understanding of  ,  how instituzionalized legal orders and everyday life can be understood in each other´s terms (Jutras ,2001, Legal dimensions of everyday life, p.51).

As a system of laws, the Milonga codes are an attempt to answer a regulation dilemma. A regulation dilemma is a dilemma born out from the need to regulate a social order. It consists in a knowledge an choose on what kind of values, what kind of purposes, and into what extent , such a regulation code would have to operate.

The codes , are conceived to be comprehensive of the particularities of the specific environment where they apply , that who is going to be regulated. The  milonga , as a site of regulation , presents many specific aspects. At the same time, the milonga reveals at the same time, the dance and the socialization. The tango rioplatense, is different from the stage tango due to their social aspect; and also it is different for the particularities of the dance, from a simple social gathering. In other words, the tango is here , more than a certain name to a cultural reference, but a kind of tango atmosphere where the tango is danced in a discreet fashion ( in a kind of environment of folklore expression) ,which is an integer part of social dance.. 

What is the dilemma for the regulation or codes for milonga ? It is more than one dilemma , to be a manifold set of dilemmas, that could be sinthetized as follows:

- How can a fairly large number of people , dance in  a limited space, allowing the development of intimacy, the co living and the keeping of forms of dance in harmony ?

- How can be done an inner area in an social universe that is motioned by individualities in contradiction, such as egoism ,the wanting for encounter, the competence, love, jealousy, erotic , ambition, oniric dreams and sensuality ? 

- How is it possible to do, with a social scope that is remarcable wide due to the diversity of ages , social position and cultural origins ?

- How is it possible, at last, to make perdurable a social phenomenon that has to adapt itself in order not to be a fossile / elephant cemetery , being at the same time , persisting alongside the evolving time line, without loosing their original authenticity ?

The answer to all this questions is the purpose of milonga codes , a rich heritage of regulations, transmitted from generation to generation, maybe not totally clear , maybe barroque , and generally , difficult to be revealed and to access.



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