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El Burdo -> RE: Keeping cante alive? (Feb. 22 2024 21:48:07)
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I think it's similar in all genres of music and art; there is a golden age that never gets matched. In any genre most people will say- 'things were much better in the old days'.
Maybe it was different then and those performing didn't expect or want to be famous.
Looking at Morante's Agujetas, Chozas, Moraos clip - there's no mic stands, foldback, PA, lighting, number one beard trims... just some olives and some fino.
Flamenco now presents as 'professional' and not cultural, though that is how it is sold. The more an art form becomes a means of making a living, the more colleges offer courses for mass study, the more synthetic it all seems to become. Jazz has the same problem - played at the pinnacle of skill, with no cultural relevance, and utterly empty.
That's Pop for you though - maybe the Underground is still worth listening to.
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