Ricardo -> RE: Norman Kliman (Feb. 16 2008 8:41:42)
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ORIGINAL: zata What I am saying is "in compás" is a different concept in Spain, ....The only privileged position a Spaniard has is in time: they don't need to spend years forgetting how to count, because they never learned that way in the first place. I know exactly what you are saying, I am not argueing what you MEAN. I am just making you aware of how it sounds. Like if you are NOT in Spain, you WON'T get the concept. That is not fair, and frankly not true. It is not true, the implication that all non spaniards learn compas by counting, and that no spanish flamencos learn to count. It is a gross generalization, even if there is SOME truth behind it. Romerito, I am not saying you need to separate the art from it's culture, just that it is redunant to describe the specific things we are talking about by making a distinction between the "insider" and the "non". At no point were we discussing the accompanying methods of specifically non spaniards and how they must play more square or something. The only thing I personally tried to meantion was the distinction between "pro square box" approach to singing and playing, and the "home grown" version that is less structured. No implictions there of insiders vs outsider, all are insiders, whatever you might mean by it. And no indiction of race or nationality either. For sure a foreignor could have been raised on flamenco, "home grown" style never the pro box way, no counting, no choreographed letras etc. For sure one can talk about the difference between the way non spaniards vs spaniards interpret things, but for the sake of this cante/accompaniment discussion, how about we save all that for a different arguement? What can the flamenco accompanist get away with, insider or not? If he is playing for a singer, he already IS an "insider". Unless you mean from a specific gitano family...yada yada, you get my point right? Anyway, since I brought it up I will drop it now, no need to stray from the topic. Ricardo
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