Salt Lake Telegram | 1923-02-18 | Page 37 | "Tango Pirate" Offers Problem

1 TANGO PiRATE i PROBLEM Argentina Argentina Takes Steps to toI I Protect Legitimate Authors I ml BUENOS AIRS AIRES Feb IT What What to toLi todo I Li fo do to suppress the tango tago pirate Is a aI I problem occupying the attention of the I Argentine ee Society c re of i Authors n sa and ga gao Corn Com o 1 posers The The- society estimates that six ix 11 lor or seven new tan goes make mako their apI ap- ap I n every week and n t that some Borne someI o oOna I g copies ate are e sold i In the e same pe- pe Is of nod Ona Inadequate but u It finds copyright yr that t In legislation g consequence l y er the 1 I pirating O of the music S Is s BO so rife that probably bt fy not more o than a o of this total are legitimate copies returning C royalty r to their authors fc success ee has hb been res resha hae had ha by agents ot of the In their efforts to have havethe havethe havethe the stolen music confiscated or the pl- pl rates rte prosecuted and now It wants the authorities prosecuted to do something about It It Fears are expressed that unless the copyright laws are amended and ana en enforced en- en forced forced tango writing will wil become a alos alost alost lost los art for lack Of reward reward ward This would be a sad blow to the ArI Argentine Ar- Ar gentine public publio If the sa estimate e la is s correct cor- cor f that the tango g accounts t ta a at p pres- pres lent nt for 70 per cent of the music sold I lin In the shops A Argentines adore their I tango with Its melancholy and is I Dated rhythm wih hm Its popularity ar has been maintained li i against gR an Invasion of American Jazz that swept the ballroom orchestras but not the shelves shelve of home music cases Th true tango Argentine A mu f- f lover say has no Word words but many many are usually treat written as songs These treat melancholy song humor of the despair wl of a ruined youth of the cabarets who call a for ruine another libation t to drown his sorrows of s of a poor working girl or the loneliness of ot a a aas h If the music la is true e tango n cl music as only l lIf If a melancholy Yf c lc It theme themo can bo be Consistently fitted to It H they say On On the other hand hand some sOnic critics critic of th the tango as a musical musIcal production SA say eay Ith the world of music would not not miss word much If ir I tango composing did become la a lost art ar tang