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There are blues bands in virtually every country in the world, and many of them are excellent.
About a year ago, I recommended an internet station (polskatstacja.pl/Blues) as the best blues program I had ever heard. They've changed and I no longer make that assertion. Part of the reason is that they have shifted more to R&B and rock, with far less diversity than they had before.
The other part is that about a third of the programming is now Polish artists. Most is blues; some is, erm, just . . . different. It is interesting how all the feeling comes through in the True Blues, even in an "unknown tongue." Blues music truly transcends language, borders, and culture.
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"My primary musical instrument is the personal computer."
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I suggest moderate discussion. Note that to some of us 'american' includes Canada. And more.
I always wondered at the Columbus Day thing. He landed in Cuba at one point, and I guess some people think that was the US, but....
One needs a broad perspective. The music of the Canadian Mid West is not much different from the US, nor is the NE music, or the NW music. And as to 'black' or 'african' or whatever term is proper these days, the end of the underground railroad was just south of me. Where my wife's family is from. They have at the local university glowing reports of the new postman and his bike, worked for my wife's family who ran the post office. They use the dreaded N word, but in the same phrase talk of him being a great gentleman, and it was the early 1800's when most Canadians had not seen someone of colour.
We need to think of music globally, and understand who and what made it what it is, in the spirit of harmony. As to the man in question and his angst, or leanings, well I know far more about Mr. Mozart than he, and far more about the music of the 1700's to the 1800's. But I like to listen.
This was posted for intelligent discussion, not 6 shooting.
On another note, after 8 weeks I got from the UK the Best of Vera Lynnn, and have been reading the era and listening to her. My 88 year old RCAF then RAF officer from WW2 told me last night, "she thought her job was to make me cry and she did a darn good job of it." Interesting...
I wondered about Columbus day even when I was a little kid. It's not like he founded NYC or something.
And Thanksgiving - our ancestors were probably thanking God the Indians were so primitive it would be easy to kill them and take their land!
We're funny people.
Like the man said, "ain't that a kick in the head!"
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I watched the entire Burns special. Didn't get so much that it was talking a lot about racism. I think he did focus a little much on Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington. Great artists of course, but not the only ones.
Like the man said, "ain't that a kick in the head!"
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Music may be the single element in human culture which can truly transcend race, religion, nationality, and ethnic origin. As such it is really magical and profound. I don't have to like or enjoy all forms of musical expression, but I should have some respect for all of it - excluding, perhaps, some hateful lyrics.
Recently scientists obtained DNA samples form over 250,000 folks worldwide in as much of a diverse spread as possible. They found [ no surprise ] that humans share about 99.9% of their DNA...we are all a single race, and very much alike. It's our various cultures and sub-cultures which set us apart, not race.
My wife doesn't like hip-hop music at all -- she maintains that it's just noise. I don't care for it myself, but I certainly recognize that it is music, and as such has an emotional message, verbal or not, that all music has. I've heard some free-flowing jazz that sounds like a flock of seagulls being sucked into a shop vac, but it's still music, whether I like it or not. I've been told that I lack the musical sophistication needed to appreciate that kind of avant garde performance, and that may be true, but I certainly won't deny that it's music.
It has always amazed me that people are compelled to make music. Whistles have been found in Cro Magnon digs that were made from a bone and showed a series of holes which suggested a diatonic scale...30,000 years ago.
I like some forms of music and dislike others, but I do admire those that invent, compose and play it. Music is the one really magical thing that we humans do. If some software can do it also, that's great, as some humans somewhere had to program that software in any event.
No music is 'owned' by a certain race or nationality, nor is there a race which is inherently 'better' at some forms of music than some other races. The attributes all come from the various cultural differences. We can see all races, religions, and ethnic peoples playing 'classical' music with great feeling and expertise, for example. I don't think we should call this music 'dead European white-guy music'.
Perhaps I can understand the feeling that wants to protect cultural aspects which have come under unrelenting attack in times past, but that desire can be misplaced in today's world. Instead we should rejoice in the playing of music, regardless of the racial origins of those performing it.
Fire, the wheel, and the I IV V -- foundations of civilization.
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Roger that axegrinder!
I read about that bone-flute with the diatonic holes. Kind of gives you chills.
How lucky are we humans to find it pleasing when certain sound waves strike our ear drums.
That DNA stuff also gives you chills. I read a story where they found a body preserved in a bog, near a smalll village in England. It was 10,000 years old. They checked everybody in the village and found a man who was related to the bog person! Way distantly of course, but related. I guess that made him the elder of the village!
Like the man said, "ain't that a kick in the head!"
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