Nice article called "Tango and theology of the body"
http://www.catholicity.com/commentary/zeno/00346.html
http://www.catholicity.com/commentary/zeno/00346.html
Tango and religion
- Thread starter Mladenac
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Captain Jep
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bordertangoman
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maybe we shold be tangoing to gregorian chant or enigma or this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z26GQaiS6TY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z26GQaiS6TY
Dave Bailey
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You're all hippies.
Not reading all, but this caught my eye...
I KNOW I'm not the only one who hears this in the music. Often, though, it feels that way. Someone else hears it, too!
Amen, Sister!
So, she's looking (has looked?) for a good Catholic tango partner? Hmmm
Anyhow, again not having read any further, after spending a month in Nepal the contrast between our society and that of less developed countries in the realm of spirituality comes into stark focus.
I wonder...
Does AT "as it is danced in Buenos Aires", the "traditional" way, supply something to believe in to many people in our "advanced" societies?
One man at our local practica told me that he was a "pagan Buddist". Didn't get a chance to follow up on that one.
I KNOW I'm not the only one who hears this in the music. Often, though, it feels that way. Someone else hears it, too!
Amen, Sister!
So, she's looking (has looked?) for a good Catholic tango partner? Hmmm
Anyhow, again not having read any further, after spending a month in Nepal the contrast between our society and that of less developed countries in the realm of spirituality comes into stark focus.
I wonder...
Does AT "as it is danced in Buenos Aires", the "traditional" way, supply something to believe in to many people in our "advanced" societies?
One man at our local practica told me that he was a "pagan Buddist". Didn't get a chance to follow up on that one.
opendoor
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Scent of Tango
Hi Mladenac, you use to call it
Very often we have been addressed by the same music, shows etc. May be, by this blog, too. Indeed, there is something very special in it. Lets call it passion. And that it is something that Tango and religion has in common. And here is another one of these special Tango stories of mine: My first Tango workshop took place in a church, in the Saint Pauls Church in the quarter St.Pauli (Hamburg). St.Pauli is the place were the Beatles started their carreer. A quarter, my english friends here would refere to as ... s., s., and s. again quarter. And in the middle of this godforsaken, godless quarter, near the habour there stands an old church, and one of my former teachers Andreas Erbsen (hi chris, I mean teacher with an real t) used to hold his workshops there. The pastor rented the church, bc. he needed the money for restoration. Can you imagine how strange it felt. Just arrived at TA and then a smell out of my childhood (churches use to smell like churches, even protestant ones).
Hi Mladenac, you use to call it
Very often we have been addressed by the same music, shows etc. May be, by this blog, too. Indeed, there is something very special in it. Lets call it passion. And that it is something that Tango and religion has in common. And here is another one of these special Tango stories of mine: My first Tango workshop took place in a church, in the Saint Pauls Church in the quarter St.Pauli (Hamburg). St.Pauli is the place were the Beatles started their carreer. A quarter, my english friends here would refere to as ... s., s., and s. again quarter. And in the middle of this godforsaken, godless quarter, near the habour there stands an old church, and one of my former teachers Andreas Erbsen (hi chris, I mean teacher with an real t) used to hold his workshops there. The pastor rented the church, bc. he needed the money for restoration. Can you imagine how strange it felt. Just arrived at TA and then a smell out of my childhood (churches use to smell like churches, even protestant ones).
There is a "brew pub" in Pittsburgh that had been a church.
Church Brew Works & Restaurant
In the Pittsburgh, PA area, especially the former mill towns along the rivers, populations surged late 19th and early 20th century as the steel industry boomed. Populations have decreased as the steel mills were closed due to competition from overseas.
Churches, schools, homes, have been abandoned because they are no longer needed.
Better to use a church for a brew pub or dance lessons, I guess, than to let the building fall into disrepair.
It takes a bit of rethinking, though, for some of us.
Church Brew Works & Restaurant
In the Pittsburgh, PA area, especially the former mill towns along the rivers, populations surged late 19th and early 20th century as the steel industry boomed. Populations have decreased as the steel mills were closed due to competition from overseas.
Churches, schools, homes, have been abandoned because they are no longer needed.
Better to use a church for a brew pub or dance lessons, I guess, than to let the building fall into disrepair.
It takes a bit of rethinking, though, for some of us.
bordertangoman
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I have no religion other than tango
straight to hell then, do not pass Go, do not collect £200!
bordertangoman
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erhemm cough; do you listen to music; for instance in an average blues song there is the pulse which makes up the undelrying rhythm, then there is the melody sung by the vocalist then there might be answering phrases from other instruments; then there's the sax/ harmonica/ lead guitar solo and you might also have backing vocals doing choruses or phrases.
Its using the same musical tools as tango but within a different structure and using blues scales rather than minor and major and different instruments.
piimapoika
Member
And look at this (13th paragraph): http://www.amandacastleman.com/tango.html
M.A. Numminen suggested in "Tango is my Passion" that it should be hymn number 666.
M.A. Numminen suggested in "Tango is my Passion" that it should be hymn number 666.