Re: [TANGO-L] Appropriate clothes + Dress and class in tango

[Richard deSousa <mallpasso @AOL.COM>]

And as a woman you approve of the brutal misogyny of rap?



-----Original Message-----
From: Linda A. <tangaux02  @YAHOO.COM>
To: TANGO-L  @MITVMA.MIT.EDU
Sent:         Wed, 7 Dec 2005 19:27:54 -0800
Subject: Re: [TANGO-L] Appropriate clothes + Dress and class in tango

 Oooooh, I shouldn't, SHOULDN'T rise to the bait
but I can't help it:

So Rich, if you were a Spanish teacher, would you
fail the Argentines for using lunfardo?  ;-P  I
mean, consistency here!

But seriously, I don't see that much difference,
maybe because I have a passing familiarity with
rap/hip-hop and the culture behind it.  I
disagree with a lot of the ideas that are upheld,
but I will say this: there is plenty of poetry to
be found if you know where to look.

The way I see it, both the compadritos of
yesteryear and the hip-hop kids of today describe
their everyday lives using an argot
that has a lot of color. (OK, four-letter words
are NOT color, but I'm referring more to the
general slang that grew out of hip-hop.)

But no matter.  Like Dani said, to each his own.
I don't pretend to understand opera, although I
love classical music.

Okay, off my non-tango soapbox.  :)

Cheers,
Linda

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