[Tango-L] Vocals and Dancing

[robert-b]

I have read elsewhere that traditional “milongueros” in BsAs would dance only to instrumental music or, at least, preferred it strongly to vocal music. However, I have nothing to back that up. 

Robert

On Oct 10, 2015, at 6:11 PM, Lois Donnay <donnay at donnay.net> wrote:

> I wrote this on a DJ forum recently: "In Buenos Aires, I often ran into
> leaders who would not dance to music with singers. They didn't like to say
> why, but it was a point of principal. Of course, the DJ's there never play
> songs with women singers. I've heard the reason is the singer deserves
> respect, so you shouldn't dance to them (kind of like not dancing to
> Gardel), and also that the way the singer influences the tempo makes the
> dance difficult."
>