[Tango-L] Why are you dancing tango if you don't like tango

[michael]

Great suggestions Ron.

Thanks,

Michael

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> From: RonTango <rontango at rocketmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Tango-L] Why are you dancing tango if you don't like
>        tango?
> To: tango-l at mit.edu
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> I?ve received several responses off-list with regard to these
> statements. The counter-arguments that I?ve heard here and in other
> discussions
> with tango organizers is that playing non-tango music makes tango
> accessible to
> people who are not familiar with it and might not like it upon first
> hearing it,
> but that they will learn to like it later. It is true that some tango music
> takes time and repeated listening to enjoy, but not all of it falls into
> that
> category. I believe that some part of the aversion to classic tango music
> is a
> dislike for the recording quality of the pre-1950s recordings. There is a
> way
> to get around that, as I discuss below.
>
> We may believe that playing neo-tango and non-tango music
> will teach people to later enjoy the classic tango music that was created
> for
> dancing tango, but it is more likely that we will attract people who will
> continue to want to dance to neo-tango and non-tango. Perhaps this accounts
> for
> the proliferation of ?alternative milongas? at the expense of traditional
> milongas outside Argentina.
> In some communities classic tango music represents a minority of the music
> played
> or dancing ?tango?. This is hardly an accurate representation of tango
> argentino.
>
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