Message: 4
Date: Sun, 2 May 2010 20:29:08 -0700
From: Tom Stermitz
Subject: Re: [Tango-L] Why are you dancing tango if you don't like
tango?
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>I've noticed that some of the most fanatical Tra
- Original Message
> From: Tom Stermitz
> When I DJ, it is this conversion process
> that I'm trying to create. By
> good musical choices, the emotional
> energy of the crowd can be
> massaged and molded. For tango-experienced
> people, this is possible
> with tango music, but t
You were dancing ballroom when you saw an Argentine tango demo and you thought
that Argentine tango was much more spectacular. And then you made friends in
the tango crowd.
Twenty years ago you saw the show Tango Argentino in San Francisco and swore to
yourself that you'd learn how to do that.
I think that for many people taste for tango music is and acquired taste. It
does not matter if you are Argentine or not.
The same happens with respect to other types of music, classical music, operas,
Lawrence Welk vs. Hevy Metal, Rapp, etc.
Sometimes this taste seems to be related to soci
You fell in love with everything tango and for the last twenty years it
has been your life until one day you read this sarcastic post on Tango L and
hung yourself with the laces of your tango shoes.
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In a message dated 5/3/2010 5:23:16 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
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I wonder if this topic is related to alternative milogas, where you don't
hear the "good stuff." Alternative milongas seem to specialize in ballroom
and Latin music, e.g. Foxtrot, American Tango, Merengue, etc. The key behind
ballroom and Latin is the cadence never changes. Foxtrot is
slow-slow