[Tango-L] tango to rap

[Sharon Pedersen]

Drat.  I apologize to the list for sending that in HTML formatting.
And now I see I'm going to have triggered the dread no-wrap on the
list archive.  ugh.
__Sharon

On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 1:19 PM, Sharon Pedersen
<sharon.pedersen at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I disagree.  I'm with Trini on the separability of names for the music and the movement.  If you turned the sound off on the video and watched it, would it look like tango?  Well, then, to me, it's tango.  Of course, if it doesn't look like tango to you with the sound off, then don't call it tango.  What does it look like to you, Anton, without the sound?
>
> __Sharon
>
> On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 1:02 PM, Anton Stanley <anton at alidas.com.au> wrote:
>>
>> I can accept the hypothesis that you can dance any type of step to tango
>> music and legitimately call it tango, but I can't accept that dancing the
>> same steps to any other music, can be called tango. I believe that only if
>> one accepts that there is no generic tango music, can dancing to non-tango
>> music be called tango.
>>
>> Anton