On 2/13/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
traditional musics from all around the world Just because they don't have a global reach (because of a lack of necessity and capitalistic marketing) doesn't mean that, say Gamelan music, isn't as great as American Blues. You have a very ethnocentric view on music.
i didnt say it wasnt as great. i was asking for one place, that in such a short amount of time, created such diverse and world reaching music. and the answer is it doesnt exist. and thats because of that individuality here: music from chicago didnt sound like music from detroit or music from anywhere else. everyone did their own thing, and the world has been rewarded for that.
But are those destinations really there because of necessity or because of desire? The sense of "place" is warped here in the US.
or maybe the sense of place is warped elsewhere! it all depends on how you look at it. the environment is going to shape these things. the environment here is very different from europe and other places with more sophisticated mass transit. not that im against mass transit, i love it quite a bit, but sometimes things make sense one place and not another. tom
