[Tango-L] Melina's two cents

[Charles Roques]

Jack,

I think the real issue, and what influences people's perception of the situation, is about what they consider to be tango, not to mention their knowledge (or lack thereof) of the history of it.  To a lot of people outside Argentina, tango can be just about anything danced to just about any kind of music.  Yes, rock and roll almost killed tango, and to judge from what I see at a lot of milongas and so-called tango performances on youTube, it also replaced it.
Cheers
Charles


Alexis thnks that foreigners have somehow 'preserved' the Tango for 
future generations. In my opinion, unless things change, foreigners
will ensure that the Tango won't survive. At least, what  think of as 
Tango.



> One thing the foreigners have probably done is ensure that in the not 
> too distant future we'll still see elderly men (and women¹!) in the 
> milongas. I think it's fair to say that were it not for the interest
> that foreigners took in tango, the generation that is now in their
> seventies would possibly have been the last one ... >