ABSTRACT
“Some people don't dance if they don't know who's singing—Why ask your head, it's your hips that are swinging”. These are my favorite lines from the Propellerheads featuring Shirley Bassey hit “History Repeating” from 1997. Music that makes you want to dance, in whatever style or genre, can be called danceable music. Tango recordings that are regularly played by tango DJs and dance teachers, as well as performed in transcribed form by contemporary tango musicians, fulfil all musical aspects of a danceable tango. Dancers favor them because the pieces are well-known and predictable. In current translocal tango dance practice, the preferred music to dance to is selected recordings from the época de oro, because these fulfil all the criteria for danceable tango music, and dancers have mostly developed their musicality around this selection.
