2006-09-09 05:22:49 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Education & Reference ➔ Words & Wordplay
i believe it's spanish
2006-09-09 05:23:38 · answer #1 · answered by Lax Angel 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Tango history
by Lori Heikkila.
Tango (the dance with the stop "Baille Con Carte") is one of the most fascinating of all dances. Originating in Spain or Morocco, the Tango was introduced to the New World by the Spanish settlers, eventually coming back to Spain with Black and Creole influences.
In the early 19th Century, the Tango was a solo dance performed by the woman. The Adualisian Tango was later done by one or two couples walking together using castanets. The dance was soon considered immoral with its flirting music!
Ballroom Tango originated in the lower class of Buenos Aires, especially in the "Bario de las Ranas". Clothing was dictated by full skirts for the woman and gauchos with high boots and spurs for the man.
The story of Tango as told is that it started with the gauchos of Argentina. They wore chaps that had hardened from the foam and sweat of the horses body. Hence to gauchos walked with knees flexed. They would go to the crowded night clubs and ask the local girls to dance. Since the gaucho hadn't showered, the lady would dance in the crook of the man's right arm, holding her head back. Her right hand was held low on his left hip, close to his pocket, looking for a payment for dancing with him. The man danced in a curving fashion because the floor was small with round tables, so he danced around and between them.
The dance spread throughout Europe in the 1900's. Originally popularized in New York in the winter of 1910-1911, Rudolph Valentino then made the Tango a hit in 1921.
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2006-09-09 05:30:13 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Commonly believed to originate from Niger-Congo in Africa, where TAMGU means "to dance".
It was widely used by black communities in Spanish South America to refer to places where people met to dance. Later the word was applied to various black dance forms, leading up to the development of what is now the Tango.
2006-09-09 05:29:57 · answer #3 · answered by Canadian Ken 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is much debate on this - the explanations of the African/Tango dance connections are certainly plausible, however there is a strong case for the word 'tan-go' being a phonetic African-dialect representation of a doubled drum beat, the noise a 'dum-DUM'! makes, a gentle and then hard hit on a skin-drum.
2006-09-09 08:39:34 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
a man came along with a giant orange hand and slapped someone in the face. everyone shouted 'you've been tangoe'd'.
lol not really, a tango is a latin fast passionate dance. came from spain im guessing.
2006-09-12 12:31:07 · answer #5 · answered by fifs_c 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's a Spanish word meaning a South American festival or dance.
I suppose the makers of the drink were making a pun with the word 'tang' meaning a pungent flavour.
2006-09-09 05:27:15 · answer #6 · answered by mad 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
tango was a drink and also it's spanich american for a dance or something oh i don't no:(( just show me the big oragne dude
2006-09-10 21:38:51 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
American Spanish, possibly of Niger-Congo origin;
akin to Ibibio tamgu, to dance
2006-09-09 05:25:21 · answer #8 · answered by Jim 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
spain i think, but it takes two to tango.
2006-09-09 05:33:20 · answer #9 · answered by melas 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Tang frum the drink and go u git "tango" meens come and git y'r tang!
2006-09-09 05:24:26 · answer #10 · answered by NONAME 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
tango the drink you silly willy
2006-09-09 05:23:49 · answer #11 · answered by § gαввαηα § 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋