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Thread #113211   Message #2414861
Posted By: irishenglish
15-Aug-08 - 03:37 PM
Thread Name: The Weekly Walkabout (part 2.)
Subject: RE: The Weekly Walkabout (part 2.)
Wow Volgadon-fascinating background! It wasn't until just a few years ago as I got into world music more that I started putting the connections between places and people better. It was through the music that I understood the history better actually. Suddenly everything became linked, and I had a reference point to understand what Andalusian actually is, or Calabrian, or Armenian. That's purely on a musical basis, culture cannot be defined by what are the artificial borders we use now. It has a much broader geographical range, a point I have tried to get WAV to understand.