I don't know when the gentler, elegant Goan era commenced, but I do know the end started in the mid eighties. As to what this era was, the explanation would take more than a post, but perhaps you could get the drift from an example in Pinheiro's recent post of his father being treated in the GMC of 1982 and his sister in the same hospital but in 2002.
Coming to Gonzaga Coutinho, in addition to what JC said about music being in the ear of the beholder or words to that effect, I would add that music is an international language, no matter the accent, intonation, instrument or whatever. Good music is good music no matter which side of the cultural divide it comes from. There could be no better harmony than a Portuguese woman crooning a Hindu Goan Konkani love song with the score arranged by a Catholic Goan and which included another Portuguese playing the bongos which is as close to a tabla as you can musically get in the studio of a country that India unceremoniously booted in 1961 but which appreciates the music and culture of its erstwhile colony while those colonials still see the red cloth before a mad bull every time that country's name is mentioned. Now tell me who is culturally superior. Therefore I was surprised at you bringing in an irrelevant PLU (and PLT-people like them) syndrome. If it is true that people in the Diaspora cannot conceive (as they are frequently accused on Goanet) of anything but a clean, communally peaceful and beautiful Goa with an honest and competent administration they once beheld decades ago, than it is equally true that people living in Goa think too much of PLUs and PLTs, of the different dialects of Konkani and of Goans abroad being subjected to racial slurs like "coons" and "Pakis". For Augusto Pinto's kind information, as mentioned by a poster, the word coon is archaic, last heard about 75 years ago and that too in the deep south of the USA in a time and location that no Goan lived and as for Pakis, after 9/11 the world knows well the difference between India and Pakistan (if they were ignorant before). They even know better than Augusto where Swat, Manali, Dara Adam Khel and Gwadar are located. So much for making a puddle of a natural pond. Roland. Toronto. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Frederick FN Noronha ????????? ???????? *??????? ??????? Sent: Sunday, November 11, 2012 2:27 PM To: Goa's premiere mailing list, estb. 1994! Subject: Re: [Goanet] Gonzaga Coutinho - Rajan and Prema Is there something as a "gentler Goan era"? If so, when did that commence, and when did it end? I'd say that Gonzaga's dialect is closer to our own, hence the PLU (people like us) syndrome. If we don't accept the diversity of dialect and script within Konkani, then we're just the other side of the Devanagari coin, imnsho. FN On 11 November 2012 00:15, Roland Francis <[email protected]> wrote: > I agree with JC that the Konkani he sings is of a gentler Goan era. > Absolutely fantastic. Reminds me of the evenings in Goa villages > lulled by waves and swishing coconut trees. >
