Miguel de Maria -> RE: Identity Crisis (Jul. 13 2013 20:38:22)
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Ruphus, I used to be a giant blues fan--and the similarities with flamenco probably can't be overstated. Once I was listening to a blues recording--can't remember what--and my uncle said "back where I come from, they hang n_____'s for that!" It was just a bad joke, but it certainly reflected that the aesthetics and cultural aspects were getting in the way of the music's communicative power. For awhile, my favorite flamenco genre was fandangos natural. About current pop (maybe pop of any time period), there's not much to say. It's a highly engineered form, more like a marketing campaign or a politician's public persona than a genuine folk music. It seems the bar for artistic skill or integrity gets lowered every half-decade. Classical music, of course, suffers greatly from the current environment. It's a complex music and much of its appeal requires close attention and context (IMO). Probably most "music consumers", the vast majority, are completely uninterested in music without words, or even words in their native language. I had a lesson for classical guitar yesterday, and my teacher and I were laughing at the ridiculously small details to which we were attending. No (average) listener will care or notice, he mentioned. I know, I said, it's for us.
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