Randy, I was going to comment again on this thread but you took the words right out of my mouth! All of the genres of music you cite have been huge in the U.S. for years now. I used to go to the various festivals in SoCal regularly and always came home loaded with music. World music has been the bulk of my, and my friends, music collections for years. Oh - I'll add another that has been big for a number of years now - Peruvian/Andean. You are so right about jazz, too, although many of the jazz artists I am familiar with are HUGE everywhere else in the world. Kakki
> I don't think I can agree with this either. World music as a genre is > getting huge in the US. British music practically took over in the 70's- > Yes, ELP, Tull, Floyd, et al....I was a definite fan! > There are literally hundreds of Reggae festivals every summer drawing > huge crowds and featuring Jamaican musicians. Celtic music is pretty > big. Hawaiian music is big. I went to a Brazilian music concert in > San Francisco that was sold out, probably a couple thousand people, > and they have them regularly. Shakira. Julio Iglesias. All them Eye- > talian operas. Vanessa Mae, The Gypsy Kings, Bjork....I think there > is quite alot of diversity. If anything, as someone mentioned, many of > our own fine jazz musicians do not get the recognition they deserve. > True, the mainstream Top 20 is often a bore, but 'twas ever thus. > RR
