A lot has been said about the cortes (cut-offs) in tango as a dance, but it’s not this aspect of the term that we are interested in now. Indeed, we are going to speak about “cut-offs” in relation to the outstanding points of its evolution, in the period that wanders and is arbitrarily called “Guardia Vieja” (Old Guard).
I took a taxi to go to my grandmother’s house, since by bus I was going to be late. I say hi to the driver, a little old man with a calm appearance. In the radio there’s a tango playing…I smile, suspecting that a nice chat was coming, and after indicating my destiny, I take the recorder from my bag.
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Excluding a few substitutions of isolated words, the interpretation of the movies are not different than the disco versions, with the exception of the zamba “Criollita de mis ensueños” of Gardel, Lepera and Battistella, that belongs to the movie “Espérame”(Joinville, September 1932) and was recorded in February 15th 1933, in Buenos Aires.
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…The truth is that, if we didn’t have at our disposal any other old testimony in relation to lunfardo, maybe we should accept the theory of its genesis as a vocabulary of delinquency. But we actually do have one.
We need the presence of somebody else to calm down. To know that I have somebody by my side that I can count on, who can support me, contain me, produces peace in me. But for that there must be self giving and mutual trust. It’s important to recognize that these roles can be interchangeable, and that, at the same time, I can feel contained and container; It’s as fundamental to be supported as much as to know I can support the other.
A lot has been said about the cortes (cut-offs) in tango as a dance, but it’s not this aspect of the term that we are interested in now. Indeed, we are going to speak about “cut-offs” in relation to the outstanding points of its evolution, in the period that wanders and is arbitrarily called “Guardia Vieja” (Old Guard).
I took a taxi to go to my grandmother’s house, since by bus I was going to be late. I say hi to the driver, a little old man with a calm appearance. In the radio there’s a tango playing…I smile, suspecting that a nice chat was coming, and after indicating my destiny, I take the recorder from my bag.
We need the presence of somebody else to calm down. To know that I have somebody by my side that I can count on, who can support me, contain me, produces peace in me. But for that there must be self giving and mutual trust. It’s important to recognize that these roles can be interchangeable, and that, at the same time, I can feel contained and container; It’s as fundamental to be supported as much as to know I can support the other.
