tijeretamiel -> RE: Sight more important than sound? (Aug. 24 2013 9:59:48)
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ORIGINAL: Kalo Well, as gloomy as this all sounds, one thing I still believe in is that TRUE ART will will always survive! Many of today's listeners may be hyponitized to all the pop music, autotune, lipsyncing performance/artist, but, there are many who want and still search for REAL music and real performance! Getting back to flamenco, it seems that it's modern state isn't in that bad health. There seem to be a good generation of young guitarists (eg Dani, Diego, etc) who will carry flamenco's torch for a good few years to come. I read that in Spain that Flamenco is generating a huge amount of revenue through tourism. On a broader context I think art evolves, with some musical forms may transpire to being evolutionary dead ends. In music waves come and go, musical forms which dominate the landscape do more often than not tend to run out of steam and the public loses interest, which I think has largely been in flamenco's favour, it's never been that fashionable/popular to fall out of fashion - it's never been in fashion. With the advent of the internet/Youtube, there's been a democratisation of music. Bodies like the music press, radio, MTV are no longer as powerful as they once were. Sight may be more important than sound to some but not to everyone. There's something for everyone.
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