john eden
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john eden said:
alright! cheers, John, I'll have to reread that when I get a minute
john eden said:
john eden said:I think you call it "indigenous folk and classical music from xxxx", where xxxx = country or region.
This idea that every kind of music from everywhere except europe (etc) can be jammed into one category is completely mental.
I mean, reggae gets filed under "world music" in some shops I've been into, FFS!
Wasn't there a David Byrne piece on all this?
phew so it's not just mestelfox said:well, i'm a big fan of pop and hope never to stop being one, so i'm not even going near that thread.
Rudy Meixell said:Why would you automatically assume that someone who likes salsa would like reggaeton or that someone who likes roots reggae would automatically like dancehall, to begin with? To me that sounds like a lumping together of styles of music that don't share similar aesthetics. Kind of like asking why someone who likes Motown wouldn't also like Detroit techno.
Dunno, there's great stuff in all of these, and I wouldn't want to be without any of it.Rudy Meixell said:salsa reggaeton roots reggae dancehall Motown Detroit techno.
Is this meant to be as funny as it reads?"world music" (a term I don't like either) provides a lot of alternatives for those of us with reactionary (another term I don't like in this context) taste in music.
No offense, but you're right, you don't know too much about this.I have read that dancehall at least partly grew out of mento--I hope I have that right--a religious/folkloric genre that hadn't really fed into reggae, but I don't know too much about this, so I'm not going to try to argue that point.
redcrescent said:Dunno, there's great stuff in all of these, and I wouldn't want to be without any of it.
redcrescent said:No offense, but you're right, you don't know too much about this.