Talk:Tango music
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"Tango soon became the first of many Latin dance crazes to gain popularity in Europe"
I change that for simply "it began to gain popularity in Europe, beginig in France"
Because the "latin" term is problematic, France is latin in the first place.
And I changed the part where it said that it was a mix of European, african and native american rithms because there is not native american influence in tango, besides there was no important native american population at that time in Buenos AIres and Montevideo. All the styles that influenced it were either African (from the slaves, mostly in Uruguay, since there were not many blacks left in BA) or European (from the immigrants of that time, mostly from Polish, French and Spanish dances).
Does anyone have any links that would help show differences in style/orchestra? I am thinking about the same song - different artists; something like "el choclo" or "la cumparsita" comes up. We would only need short sequences to highlight the differences...?! dekay 14:22, 8 Jun 2004 (UTC)
Que vergoña dedicarle mucho mas lugar al gotan project que a todos los grandes del tango... en fin, uno se pone viejo. pero igual: oh my gosh.
I removed the paragraph below because it isn't relevant. Tango has been featured in lots of movies, TV shows and other parts of pop culture -- as a matter of fact, tango has long constituted a major part of pop culture. Tuf-Kat
- Shakira released a song — "Te Aviso, Te Anuncio (Tango)" — which starts with a tango-like part (and also features some seconds of tango dancing in its video). The musical Chicago by John Kander and Fred Ebb was recently made into a film and also features a tango, the "Cell Block Tango", where murderers or, at least, accused murderers from a women's prison in Chicago greet newcomer to the jail (Roxie Hart) in their own way. The soundtrack of Waking Life features tango music prominently; the feature track is called "The Twenty-First Century Tango". Another movie featuring a good tango scene is Moulin Rouge, to a fusion of the Police song "Roxanne" with Mariano Mores's "Tanguera" — creating "El tango de Roxanne".
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[edit] Center only in Argentina?
Most of the people think that Tango was born in Montevideo (Uruguay), place also were the most famous Tango (La Cumparsita) was composed. Though, I don't see any good mention to Uruguay.
Ahh but don't forget to mention that the tango is also featured in recent popular culture movies. "Guess Who" with Ashton Kutcher and Bernie Mac and also the most recent "Rent!"
- I disagree strongly with that. Who is most of the people? Is there really any evidence? I have been looking through different web pages and encyclopediae, and found nothing relating the origin of Tango with Montevideo.
- S.
I think this article should be re-reseached all together. The Tango was originated in Andalusian (Spain) and migrated to Argentina in the 1500's. The Argentine Tango is now considered a modified version of the Andalusian Tango which was originated more as a music than a dance. Evidence of this Argentine origin of tango is by the fact that the tango dance is composite of African and European styles of dancing. Most info on this can be found on this website: http://www.streetswing.com/histmain/z3andulz.htm
.. ok..in a way, tango is not uruguayan..nor aregentinian... tango is rio platanse (silver river).. from motevideo and buenso aires. easy..
[edit] Contradiction
The page contains a contradiction: that the Golden Age ended after Gardel's death (1935) and that it ran from 1935-1952 (i.e. it started after his death). Well which is it? [adonovan] —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 38.119.128.203 (talk • contribs).
- You'r right. The Golden Age was from 1930 to 1950 (aprox). I fixed the text. Mariano(t/c) 08:59, 10 March 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Tango-related article deletion
Please vote Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Tango.info (2nd nomination). `'mikka (t) 18:47, 14 July 2006 (UTC)
[edit] On electronic tango
The part about gotan project is very old dated (2004) I haven't changed anything because I'm not very skilled and the only thing new I know about it is that they have a new album called Lunatico (like Gardel's horse).
