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eccullen -> RE: sure is quite around these parts! (Oct. 26 2008 9:36:08)
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It has been quiet.
No impassioned conflicting opinions. No prolonged technical discussions.
I suspect that many check-in every day, I do.
And I, and I suspect many who like me started flamenco relatively recently (3 years, classical many), have learned so many technical lessons here that I don't know wahat to ask. Between these lessons, so greatly appreciated, and the ongoing ones with my teacher.
Maybe everyone got tired after the whole foro death and rebirth period.
But...
I've been thinking about how I can't really articulate to myself what generates the strong draw to flamenco, more than other forms? I mean, why this for us? Why not with brazillian, or classical, or blues or the other stuff I imagine we've all explored ?
Rhythmic complexity, gutsy poetry, what is it?
How do you all speak to this for yourselves?
I've been thinking alot about the article that Kate sent a while back, the paradox in it: a culture where the focal point is that there is no focal point and the freedom that comes from that. I guess in part that's the cause of the amazing way the gyspy culture has spread over the world , over so many years.
Is there some sort of freedom embedded in the music that we feel?
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