Daily Tango
DT – 010 A short documentary
This is a day old, but it shows tango dancers on Buenos Aires’ streets.
DT – 009 – Aimless
So you think I am crazy for saying the tango will break the Palestinian immigrants.
You might be forgiven if, as an American, you thought tango was an older, dying art forum. I, like most Americans, used to think tango’s heyday was around 1910.
You could not be more wrong. Tango never died in Argentina. It had its ups and downs; but it always re-invented itself and came back. In the 1950s, Astor Piazzola mixed it with jazz and classical music to create Nuevo Tango [New Tango]. Reviled at first, it sparked a revolution in the art form.
In the 1980s and 1990s, electrotango came out.
Sin Rumbo (Aimless) – by Otros Aires [Other Airs] – mixes older tangos with newer electronic forms
If, like me, you are American, you are probably unaware of tango’s resurgence. I know I used to be. Tango is roaring back. Now there are Argentine grandparents dancing tango with the grandchildren and their kids.
If one were to put 200,000 Palestinians in Argentina – less than ½% of the whole population, the Arabs would be confronted with a culture which not only gender mixes, but does so daily; and flaunts it in one’s face.
There is no way, Sharia would last more than one generation.
Pa’ Bailar [To Dance]
by Bajofondo [Low-Deep] – An Argentine-Uruguayan Electrotango band
DT – 008 – Cumparsita in Plaza Dorrego
This is an older video posted in February, 2010; though the video itself may be a bit older. While there was tango posted on YouTube today, it was not really that great, so I went back to a classic video.
The song is the world famous Cumparsita (the little parade), the most famous tango ever written. The Uruguayans like to take credits, but a good portion of the composition was by an Argentine, Roberto Firpo.
The male dancer is a local legend called “EL INDIO” (the Indian) Pedro Benavente. The lady is Virgina Uva.
There is a massive subculture to tango in Argentina (and Uruguay). Its allure is crosses generational lines. Notice the children, youth, adults and elders in the crowd. Mothers have their infants with them, starting them off at an early age.
In Metro Buenos Aires – where one third of Argentina lives – they dance on the streets, the parks, the cafés, the schools, and pretty much everywhere. Any Palestinian immigrants will quick abandon any pretense of Sharia when confronted with the ubiquity of the tango.
If you think the Palestinian Muslims will be unassimilable, you have got to be kidding.
The Tango will shatter Sharia to shreds.
The Palestinians will assimilate.