[Tango-L] Time before tango

2010-06-04 Thread Charles Roques
Not only Collier and Thompson but many historians accept that there was milonga before tango but all great art forms, musical or otherwise, are hybrids and evolve from other influences into their own characteristic form. There was no first milonga, or tango but more a mixture of sounds that eve

Re: [Tango-L] The Time before Tango

2010-06-04 Thread RonTango
- Original Message > From: Jack Dylan > To: Tango-L > Sent: Thu, June 3, 2010 11:46:08 PM > Subject: Re: [Tango-L] The Time before Tango > > From: RonTango >> In Buenos Aires, >> the birthplace of tango, near the end of the 19th >> century, there was milonga and >> there was the va