Ricardo -> RE: "Flamenco IS fusion" is a tired argument! (Jul. 17 2018 16:33:33)
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ORIGINAL: Leñador Recently a dancer sent me a video of a well known baile teacher in Sevilla teaching a choreography to some reggeaton song. Needless to say my response was......"passionate disapproval" we'll call it. Her defense of this is "flamenco itself is fusion so what's wrong with more fusion." This is not the first time I've heard this argument. "Sephardic music, Moorish music, Ida y vuelta bla bla bla". This seems like such a weak argument to me. Sephardic and Moorish influences happend hundreds of years ago and ida y vuleta is over 100. Why is it not allowed to be it's own unique and defined genre now?? Should we be calling Spaghetti with meat sauce fusion food because pasta comes from china and tomatoes come from the americas??? By this standard EVERY music is fusion of some sort. If you want to make fusion that's fine but defending it by saying "flamenco IS fusion" is a really lame argument to me. Partially a rant, but also want to hear some other opinions on this. Well, you provide no video so this is all about what one person’s words and ideas are compared to another person’s. So my brain has to fill it all in. I will say that Raggaeton is clearly your typical Rumba pattern and tempo, so musically could fit right in to any rumba, tientos or Tarantos escobillas etc etc, depending on the chord progression, I have already tossed in some despacito as a joke myself....the pattern has been universal as probably the most successful fusion/rhythm pattern everywhere on earth accross dozens of cultures. So in my mind, I don’t see it as much of a stretch MUSICALLY.....now the lyric part of it is a different story, those types of “songs” mixing into the flamenco genre are at best, a joke like I did with despacito, to worst, in horrible taste or insult to the art of cante. But it would come down to the specific song in this case. So, once again, a taste issue nothing more.
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