On Mar 14, 2005, at 3:33 AM, Mark D Lew wrote:
On Mar 13, 2005, at 10:28 AM, Andrew Stiller wrote:
In 1820? *What* interior heartland? There was an interior alright, but it was very sparsely populated and could hardly be considered the heartland of anything.
Good point. I would just amend "sparsely populated" to "sparsely populated by non-indigenous Americans". Sorry to nitpick, but I don't like to see perpetuated the myth that American expansion was into vacant land.
The ultimate source of the conflict between the Indians and the European colonists was a dramatic contrast in population densities in the different cultures. Europe ca. 1600 was an order of magnitude more densely populated than North America, so that when Europeans arrived in North America, they thought the place was empty, while the indigenous inhabitants thought it was quite full, thank you.
So "sparsely populated" in my posting needs no qualifier--especially since I am speaking by 21st-c. Western standards . And, of course, the high *percentage* of Indians in the interior territories merely underlines the non-existence there of any universal "people's music" that included everybody.
Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://home.netcom.com/~kallisti/
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