----- Original Message ----- From: "Fahd Al Noor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Jonny McIntosh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, December 09, 2000 2:45 PM Subject: Re: [313] not black enough
> > I still dont quite understand the statement "Techno came from Detroit" > very interesting concept..how things "come" from a place, out of the blue > and how people like to ignore everything that took place priorly > Nothing "comes" from a place..it is originated due to the influence of > something else, music genres dont come from a place, they originate from > other music styles, I hope you are not trying to tell me that blacks > "invented" music > I don't think the posts are trying to imply that "blacks 'invented' music" i think what some are trying to relate and im sure its been said before that it has been a sad part of american (usa) history that forms of expression valid in their own right have often been co-opted by the "mainstream" without credit given to their origins... techno, like most other forms of music is the result of a convergence of other styles. that convergence taking place in many minds thru the work of the innovators at the time that they first started doing their thing... and still in the face of the mainstreaming of techno (well "electronica") that the people that did stuff in the beginning still do not get the proper credit they deserve.... but then again - neither do their infuences... Jim [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- amiga lives! ----------------------------------------------------------------------
