Le 09-12-12 à 02:20, [email protected] a écrit :
> .....but one reason that I never do is the consideration that I
> wasn't actually there in the middle ages and the renaissance. I can
> make guesses about how it might have sounded and others can too, but
> we can never really know, so there are pretty sharp limits to the
> judgments we can make.
Guesses ? Here it is not the musician who answers but
the history buff . People who do research are always arguing
among themselves on certain points
but generally agree on a a basic knowledge on a subject . What
you call " guess " is a " working hypothesis " which gets proven
or denied over time .
But at this point , I would like to bring another point of
view . For Americans the HG may be the " coolest thing " for a
while until the next fashion comes up .
For other people , it is a national /familial /cultural/historical/
whatever tradition . For most of us the HG does not really mix with
belly dancing and people for who
belly dancing is familial or cultural tradition do not think much of
HG either. Métissage that is fun on a camping ground in France is
close to annoying on a YouTube
clip made in the USA , but this is something Americans can not imagine.
I wonder how Belgians felt when they heard jazz music
played on the saxophone for the first time ? Maybe the history of
the HG has now moved to the
USA as the Scottish bagpipe had to go through England to be
known all over the British empire and former colonies ? History
will tell.
Henry , dit Tourblanche .
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