Re: [TANGO-L] Milonga

[Tom Stermitz <Stermitz @RAGTIME.ORG>]

Sergio Vandekier <sergiovandekier990 @HOTMAIL.COM> said:
> Milonga is one of the ancestors of tango. It originated in rural areas where
> gauchos competed improvising philosophical discussions to  guitar
> accompaniment (Payadas). It gave birth to Tango and evolved into the modern
> milonga.

Again...in my understanding this is incorrect.

MILONGA WAS NOT AN ANCESTOR OF THE TANGO. There was once a dance
called the milonga, it could have been gaucho, but it is something
else, not something that became tango.

The modern milonga dates to the 1930s when tango music slowed down,
and milonga music sped up a little, sometimes adding candombe
elements.
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Tom Stermitz
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