Un Loco wasnt written with an eye on the world market, and its very unlikely that it could have been a popular hit any place else… especially at a time when the rest of the world was going crazy over Led Zeppelin and the Rolling Stones. Porteños tend to go their own way, and they have put their own special stamp on some serious music and literature. Maybe it takes a geographically isolated place like Buenos Aires, where school children study poetry along with arithmetic, and older kids are exposed to a diet of Borges and surrealism, to appreciate something like Balada Para un Loco. There is also a good translation of the poem in this blog tangoandchaos.org/chapt_4music/17crazy.htm. https://youtube/watch?v=IrG5ernfF88
Posted on: Thu, 23 Oct 2014 16:38:02 +0000
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