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 <[email protected]> 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." > _______________________________________________ Tango-L mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/tango-l
