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My new audiophile rig, why you should consider a Chord DAC, and why you should care about room acoustics
Why tango is a black dance stolen by whites if black people FEEL that it’s a black dance stolen by whites:
Why I bought a $1700 Chord DAC: Noise shaping and perception of space in music
After my Audioquest Dragonfly Cobalt disaster I’m on the market to upgrade the DAC
Woke-ism: So great for women and girls!
Is this why most people at milongas don’t really listen to the music?
Possible explanation of the psychology behind moving in the line of dance?
Are the leftists in tango planted by Soros’ Open Society Foundation?
Proof: Lindy hop is a black dance stolen by whites, esp. white women:
Why postmodernists are soulless zombies
Facebook might cause brain damage
Why feminism destroys everything
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Recent Articles
- My new audiophile rig, why you should consider a Chord DAC, and why you should care about room acoustics
- Why I bought a $1700 Chord DAC: Noise shaping and perception of space in music
- Corrective feedback and experiential aesthetics
- Getting dances: the practice milonga, distance invite and musical chairs
- The One Tango Philosophy: can Tango Milonguero co-exist with “Argentine Tango”?
- Why inefficiency and obsolescence is not a bug but a feature of “Argentine Tango” teaching
- The Great 78 Project: listen to ÉdO records as they originally sounded
- Rules for organising a traditional milonga
- Why tango is not an Afro dance stolen by evil whites
- Cultural Marxist destruction of Argentine Tango: why I’m getting out
- The MP3: an impoverished musical experience
- Salon Canning vs. the tango organiser (aka Fakebook Tango): why there are no good tango DJs
ContactMilongueroTV
- Edward Dutton: Why Postmodernists Don’t Have Souls
- Social media and forums: meeting place for vacuous narcissists and fake friends
- Edward Dutton on why feminism destroys everything
- Why leave Fakebook: Leftist aesthetics, cognitive dissonance, emotional capital and evolved practices
- Welcome to Contact Milonguero: Why I no longer do “Argentine Tango”
- Fakebook tango and aesthetic truth: A historical journey
- Tango idiocracy: tango forums, dynamic range, soul food, consumer democracy, bad education, Latino teachers and Marxist women
- Giving weight: The basic concept of Tango Milonguero
- Motivation in social dancing: goals, novelty and sexual marketplace dynamics
- The importance of not seeing in learning Tango Milonguero (or anything)
- Tango Milonguero embrace: Cultural plasticity and anatomical universals
- Alternative strategies for Tango Milonguero education
- The relationship between training and performance
- What are the goals of Tango Milonguero education?
CONTENTS
I. Music
History and Theory
- Tango music in historical context
- Tracing the origins of tango music to contradanza and habaneira
- Authenticity: Why dance only to Golden Era music
- Beauty and interpretation: Canonical tango recordings
- Feeling: Understanding music as movement and expression
Audio Technology
- Salon Canning vs the tango organiser (aka Fakebook Tango): Why there are no good tango DJs
- The MP3: An impoverished musical experience
- The Great 78 Project: Listen to EdO records as they originally sounded
- Why I bought a $1700 Chord DAC: Noise shaping and perception of space in music
- My new audiophile rig, why you should consider a Chord DAC, and why you should care about room acoustics
II. Movement Technique
Foundational practice: Focused Connected Tango Movement
- The importance of slow focused practice
- Focused Connected Tango Movement
- The ABCD Method
- Video: ABCD Method foundational practice
- Mental imagery and partnering technique: Push-pull vs long spine
- Video analysis of inefficient and efficient movement in Tango Milonguero
Basic position: posture, alignment & embrace
- Posture and the head-neck relation
- Alignment: The Bow practice
- Alignment: Floating Elbows practice
- Embrace: The essence of tango
Basic movement: walking and turning
- Walking: The basic movement
- Feet: economy, function and aesthetics
- Walking and the principle of reversibility
- Turning without swivelling
Movement technique: culture, aesthetics and efficiency
- Technique and culture
- What is essential in tango: Connection
- Improvisation: Freedom or constraint
- Choreography vs emergent movement
- Aesthetics and efficiency of movement
- Naturalness in dancing
- Adornments and women’s technique: Why they are a really bad idea
III. Teaching Method
Teaching system
Teaching strategies
- Systems vs goals
- Teaching skills
- Culture and learning: Acculturation vs enculturation
- Mental imagery in movement learning
- Tango as conversation
- Motivation
- Micro-skill stack
- Base: True and false beginners
- Videos: how to use them
Milonga
- The BIG small: Courtesy
- Minding the red flags: The setup for milonga success
- A fundamental problem of global tango: too much floor space
- Rules for organising a traditional milonga
- Possible Explanation Of The Psychology Behind Moving In The Line Of Dance In Tango
IV. Politics and Criticism
Introduction to politics and criticism
Styles
- One dance or many: The styles of tango
- Tradition and evolution: The influence of Street Latin
- Conservatism and progressivism in tango: real and faux
- Proposal for an alternative tango nomenclature: Tango Dramático, Tango Romántico and Tango Expresivo
Criticism and postmodernism
- Postmodernism and consumerism
- Tango as culture: anthropology vs criticism
- Beauty or kitsch: making aesthetic judgements about tango dancing
- Sacred and profane values in the postmodern world
- Postmodernism: the hollowing out effect of ironic word salad in tango discourse
Tango in the crosshairs of the Culture War
- Sex roles: Is tango compatible with women’s empowerment
- The dystopian future: Hipster tango
- Female hypergamy and its effect on the milonga scene
- The pandemic: Left totalitarianism and acceleration
- Why leftism is an illiberal winner takes all system
- Cultural Marxist destruction of Argentine Tango: Why I’m getting out
- Why AT is not an Afro dance stolen by evil whites
