The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #19650   Message #2714909
Posted By: Folknacious
02-Sep-09 - 04:46 PM
Thread Name: What is Blues?
Subject: RE: What is Blues?
In recent years it has become quite fashionable to refer to musics from other cultures that carry the same feeling/ content/ origins as blues as "the xxxx blues". So what Ali Farke Toure plays is called "desert blues", and rembetika from Greece is called "the Greek blues" and portuguese fado is "Portuguese blues". Is this just journalists etc being lazy, everything getting cuturally American-centric, or does it make real sense?