The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #103474   Message #2109019
Posted By: stallion
23-Jul-07 - 03:50 AM
Thread Name: What's so wrong about Barbershop?
Subject: RE: What's so wrong about Barbershop?
I like most music in small doses, what me and t'other two sing is what we do of an evening around the kitchen table with a bottle of wine (or two), some stilton and biscuits, it's loose, drifts in and out of three parts and unison, we don't put a label on it and shrug our shoulders when we are asked how we arrive at our arrangements (sometimes it is a real challenge remembering what made a particular chime) I enjoy elaborate music like barbers shop but it aint what I would call folk music but then I don't agree with the strand that it has to be planted in the eons of time. It is curios that the Black/ White thing should come up, it simply never entered my head, and still doesn't. I once tried to describe someone to a friend and after some long time he said, "oh you mean the Black guy", next time I saw him I looked and he was Black it hadn't registered with me and still doesn't, I don't seem to register race, shouldn't we all be like that?