{"id":1720,"date":"2026-05-06T08:23:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T08:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tangocultura.com\/?p=1720"},"modified":"2026-05-06T16:52:27","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T16:52:27","slug":"does-neotango-deserve-the-same-respect-as-the-tango-of-the-40s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tangocultura.com\/it\/does-neotango-deserve-the-same-respect-as-the-tango-of-the-40s\/","title":{"rendered":"Does Neotango Deserve the Same Respect as the Tango of the 40s?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-cover alignfull is-style-ext-preset--cover--natural-1--cover-overlay-1\" style=\"padding-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--70);padding-right:var(--wp--preset--spacing--30);padding-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--70);padding-left:var(--wp--preset--spacing--30)\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" class=\"wp-block-cover__image-background wp-image-1741\" alt=\"B4ff9804b53b1de63be4b338eddbf1d1c694aed7\" src=\"https:\/\/tangocultura.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/b4ff9804b53b1de63be4b338eddbf1d1c694aed7.jpg\" data-object-fit=\"cover\" title=\"Does Neotango Deserve the Same Respect as the Tango of the 40s?\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tangocultura.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/b4ff9804b53b1de63be4b338eddbf1d1c694aed7.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/tangocultura.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/b4ff9804b53b1de63be4b338eddbf1d1c694aed7-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tangocultura.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/b4ff9804b53b1de63be4b338eddbf1d1c694aed7-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/tangocultura.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/b4ff9804b53b1de63be4b338eddbf1d1c694aed7-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tangocultura.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/b4ff9804b53b1de63be4b338eddbf1d1c694aed7-18x10.jpg 18w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><span aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-cover__background has-background-dim-80 has-background-dim\" style=\"background-color:#010101\"><\/span><div class=\"wp-block-cover__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-container-core-cover-is-layout-5cffc2c1 wp-block-cover-is-layout-constrained\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignwide is-layout-constrained wp-container-core-group-is-layout-49106520 wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center ext-animate--on\"><strong>Does Neotango Deserve the Same Respect as the Tango of the 40s?<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center ext-animate--on\"><strong>Neotango<\/strong>\u00a0(or neo-tango) is a musical and dance movement that fuses\u00a0<strong>traditional tango<\/strong>\u00a0with electronic genres such as ambient, trip hop, house, or avant-garde music.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-uagb-container uagb-block-5400b20d alignfull uagb-is-root-container\"><div class=\"uagb-container-inner-blocks-wrap\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-essential-blocks-text  root-eb-text-628o5\"><div class=\"eb-parent-wrapper eb-parent-eb-text-628o5\"><div class=\"eb-text-wrapper eb-text-628o5\" data-id=\"eb-text-628o5\"><p class=\"eb-text\">Last night at the milonga, something happened that got me thinking.<br>A neotango track came on. Nothing too extreme: a soft electronic beat, a sampled bandoneon, that rhythm that mixes the old with the new.<br>The dance floor emptied.<br>Not completely, but enough to notice. Some went back to their tables with the excuse of &#8220;let&#8217;s get some water.&#8221; Others just sat down with their arms crossed, silently urging the DJ to put on something &#8220;real.&#8221;<br>And at the back of the hall, a couple of young guys \u2014 the kind who got into tango through Gotan, Bajofondo, or that Almod\u00f3var movie \u2014 killed it. They danced with everything. With embrace, with turns, with soul.<br>It got me thinking.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"disabled","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":false,"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false,"trp-custom-language-flag":false},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"admin","author_link":"https:\/\/tangocultura.com\/it\/author\/admin\/"},"uagb_comment_info":1,"uagb_excerpt":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tangocultura.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tangocultura.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tangocultura.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tangocultura.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tangocultura.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1720"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/tangocultura.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1720\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1745,"href":"https:\/\/tangocultura.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1720\/revisions\/1745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tangocultura.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tangocultura.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tangocultura.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}