This is far more information and analysis than anyone wants, but it's been on my mind a long time. So maybe it's time... This post is in response to a forum discussion going on at Tango Connections about the criticism at the milonga, and tango codigos . If you go to the Tango-L listserv (mailing list/forum) archives, you'll find that from the very near the beginning (of the archive list anyway) tango dancers have been arguing about the codigos, about milonga manners and floor craft etc. The archive only goes back to 1994, but the first specific post I found was November 1995 - http://pythia.uoregon.edu/~llynch/Tango-L/1995/msg00050.html . That's just one place - there are sites archived elsewhere with the same debates and they go back years. The Social Human So why do we constantly, heatedly, unrelentingly argue about the milonga codes? Because we are engaging in a shared, emotional experience . Defining terms and setting rules makes it feel safe to do that. Wh...
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