[Tango-L] The Time before Tango

[Jack Dylan]

> From: RonTango rontango at rocketmail.com

>In Buenos Aires, 
> the birthplace of tango, near the end of the 19th century, there was milonga and 
> there was the vals brought from Europe by immigrants, but there was no tango. 
> 

There appear to be different historical versions of this. My understanding is that
milonga music predates tango - but only as music and song, without dance.
And that milonga, as a dance, came after tango.

Also, as I understand it, tango was well established by the end of the 19th century
so I don't understand your statement that there was "no tango" near the end of the 
19th century.

Now that Tango has been declared an 'intangible cultural heritage', I think the first 
thing that should be done is for a group of tango scholars to write the definitive 
history of Tango.

Jack