BS: Interesting Community

Subject: BS: Interesting Community
From: Kweku
Date: 13 Mar 06 - 10:10 AM

My name is Quarcoo,I live in Kumasi-Ghana-West Africa. I guess I am the first Ghanaian on board and most glad to.I am the first born of four, 25yrs of age and single. My hobbies include composing poems and music,listening to music,travelling and watching movies. I am very open-minded and tolerant of diverse views.

I am a degree holder in information studies and as such love information in all shapes and sizes. And one of the best ways of gathering information is through interactions.

Aziz recommeded this site to me and immediately I decided to join. I was really amazed when I learned that 15 people had written to welcome me to mudcat. To all those people I will say thank you and sorry for the late response.I am looking forward to long years of interactive discussions.

Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Community
From: ranger1
Date: 13 Mar 06 - 10:14 AM

Welcome! It can get a little crazy here, but I've met some of the best people through this site.

Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Community
From: Rapparee
Date: 13 Mar 06 - 10:19 AM

Darn it, I missed your initial post.

Welcome abroad. Don't let folks get to you. Don't feed the trolls. Azizi is okay, even though she does live in Pittsburgh. (I'm out in the mountains of Idaho, about 3,000 km. from Azizi.)

Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Community
From: jacqui.c
Date: 13 Mar 06 - 10:24 AM

Welcome Quarcoo. Hope you get as much from the site as I have. It is a very special community.

Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Community
From: Tinker
Date: 13 Mar 06 - 10:27 AM

Careful Quarcoo, since Jacqui found her husband here that's a pretty hefty wish on her part... BG   Welcome
Tinker

Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Community
From: Wesley S
Date: 13 Mar 06 - 10:29 AM

Welcome - I hope you will find something of interest here. I've always wondered if we've had any members from Africa. Other than Anartica - have we missed any of the continents ?

Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Community
From: Sorcha
Date: 13 Mar 06 - 10:33 AM

Wes, we actually DO have a member in Antarctica, Ice Boy, but he's been inactive for quite a while.

Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Community
From: Wesley S
Date: 13 Mar 06 - 10:35 AM

OK then - 7 our of 7 ?

Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Community
From: greg stephens
Date: 13 Mar 06 - 10:36 AM

Quarcoo: welcome to Mudcat, where I hop e you will meet interesting people. There are plenty of us here who are interested in African music(and other world music), but we don't have a lot of Africans to give us direct experience.
   My own areas of interest are in the movement of music round the world, and how different cultures interact. Obvious examples are the movement of music from west Africa to the Americas( north and south) with the slave trade. And, in the particular case of West Africa, the very poweful influence of the "Bounced back" dance music from Brazil, which was accessible in west Africa (and only in the west) from the shortwave radio broadcasts in the 30's.
I am an English musician, and particularly interested in traditional English dance music. I was very influenced by a Ghanaian drummer in England in the 70's, Danny Hammond, We collaborated, when working with the theatre company Welfare State International, on mixing English tunes with west African rhythms. It produced from very interesting music, and affected my approach to the use of English tradutional music in modern dance music. Many other bands have experimented in this way(Edward II and the Redhot Polkas, for example).
   In the other direction, the harmonies taken to west Africa by the missionary hymns have almost completely taken over west African popular music. So guitars playing G, C and D7 chords are now just as standard as they are in America or Britain.
    Anyway, I'm just starting a little chat about Ghana here. Welcome agian, we need some African viewpoints on the forum.

Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Community
From: Bert
Date: 13 Mar 06 - 10:48 AM

Wahay! welcome aboard.

Information studies eh! well be VERY careful here; there's loads of information but you'll have to sift amongst the personal opinions & BS to get to it *GRIN*

Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Community
From: Azizi
Date: 13 Mar 06 - 10:48 AM

Welcome again, Quarcoo!

Share, learn, enjoy!!

You'll find that folks on Mudcat aren't always serious. Sometimes threads and posts are witty and humorous, and just plain silly.

For instance, Rapaire's comment that "Azizi is okay, even though she does live in Pittsburgh"...hmmm, was that meant as a critism of my adopted home town, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania? Couldn't be. After all, Pittsburgh is the home of the 2006 Superball [football]champions. I'm sure no one in his right mind would critize the Steelers!

And as to me being "okay". Okay?! Just okay? Oh, now I'm gonna go away and cry. Rapaire thinks I'm just okay. I'm crushed. My
self-esteem has just taken a blow. Will I ever recover from this
put-down? Somehow, I think so.


;o)

Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Community
From: Rustic Rebel
Date: 13 Mar 06 - 11:07 AM

Hi Quarcoo, and welcome! Your name sounds musical! Is there an english translation or meaning to your name?

Okay so that was a question I still didn't answer for myself but I thought, well I'll just look it up for myself to see if I can find a meaning.
The first place I went to in the search was cocojams!(click) Imagine that! Not only are you mentioned but Azizi and mudcat threads.
Welcome again! Peace. Rustic

Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Community
From: GUEST,bbc at work
Date: 13 Mar 06 - 11:29 AM

A warm welcome to you! You'll find we are a mixed group. Take us w/ a grain of salt, pick & choose which threads you read & which you reply to, try to think before you post (so as to keep from embarrassing yourself!), & enjoy the wealth of information & opinion you'll find here! Over time, you'll get to know folks & can send personal messages to new friends, as well as replying to threads.

best from New York state,

Barbara

Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Community
From: Jerry Rasmussen
Date: 13 Mar 06 - 11:40 AM

Welcome aboard, Quarcoo. My wife and I visited Ghana four years ago and loved it. Iyr daughter is a Baptist minister and has a sister church in Ghana. When we were there, I picked up a great nurmber of cassettes of African music and now that I finally have a simple way to convert cassettes to CDs, I'm looking forward to putting together a couple of CDs from our trip.

We also heard a wonderful reggae band when we were there.. just playing in the lobby of our hotel. I love reggae and find African reggae brings a new dimension to the music.

Jerry

Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Community
From: Amos
Date: 13 Mar 06 - 11:42 AM

Quarcoo:

Come to the Getaway in November in Maryland -- the weather is cool, but the gathering is warm. We'll send Azizi down to BWI to meet your flight!! This will add some GREAT music to the Getaway. Yeeehoo!

A

Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Community
From: CarolC
Date: 13 Mar 06 - 12:05 PM

Very cool.

Welcome to the Mudcat, Quarcoo!

Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Community
From: sian, west wales
Date: 13 Mar 06 - 12:31 PM

Welcome, Quarcoo, and nice meeting you in the Chat the other day (a good one: Australia, Wales, Ghana).

There's a lot to be learned on the 'Cat. Even this thread now, I've learned something about Greg - didn't know he had been part of the great Welfare State Theatre company! (Respect!)

And as was said above, don't bother with the trolls or flamers. It's a pretty good place to be if you can keep that in mind!

siân

Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Community
From: gnu
Date: 13 Mar 06 - 01:35 PM

Welcome. And, pay no attention to the half-crazy nutballs around here. There are only a few of us.

Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Community
From: SINSULL
Date: 13 Mar 06 - 02:30 PM

Welcome Quarcoo. Make sure to visit the Chat Room some evening and meet some us keyboard to keyboard.
SINS

Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Community
From: open mike
Date: 13 Mar 06 - 02:31 PM

I am fascinated by the history of the culture and music of the Garifuna
people...they came from Africa and the Caribbean and went to Honduras
and Belize in Central America. Their music, language and culture are
a blend of all those elements.

Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Community
From: fat B****rd
Date: 13 Mar 06 - 02:36 PM

Hello and welcome.

Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Community
From: frogprince
Date: 13 Mar 06 - 03:16 PM

Welcome, Quarcoo! At 25, you will single-handedly lower the average age of the forum by about 3 percent, which is probably a good thing.
Lots of the folk here are very knowlegeable about a wide variety of music. Others, like me, just know we enjoy a lot of music. We also like to juggle perspectives on a lot of what goes on in the world, and share, or inflict, our various senses of humor. Make yourself at home!

Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Community
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 13 Mar 06 - 04:00 PM

I disagree there. I think quite a lot of us are half-crazy nutballs. But there are very few who are nasty with it. (And the thing to do with them is indeed to pay them no attention.)

Welcome aboard.

Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Community
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 13 Mar 06 - 05:04 PM

Welcome a plank!

Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Community
From: Kaleea
Date: 14 Mar 06 - 01:39 AM

Good to hear from you, Quarcoo! Be sure to tell us your opinions & observations. I always (almost) enjoy hearing a different point of view about things. I've learned many things by reading the musings of Mudcatters.
Azizi--golly gee willikers, I hope your ego is still intact! (do you think Rapaire heard us from all the way out in Idaho doing the "nanee nanee boo-boo?")

Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Community
From: alanabit
Date: 14 Mar 06 - 02:46 AM

Welcome on board. Look forward to hearing more from you.

Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Community
From: Rapparee
Date: 14 Mar 06 - 08:54 AM

Well, I've been to Pittsburgh. Several times, in fact. To meetings and just to visit with friends. The Monogehela and the Alleghany are nice. So is that little German restaurant I went to on the west side of town. The Ohio is nice. Old Ft. Duquesne is nice, too.

Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Community
From: Azizi
Date: 14 Mar 06 - 09:08 AM

Pittsburgh=nice

Azizi=okay

Rapaire=??

Mudcat=Interesting!!

LOL!!

[btw-I understand that Quarcoo does not always have easily accessible Internet access. But I believe that he will post on Mudcat again].

Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Community
From: Leadfingers
Date: 14 Mar 06 - 12:05 PM

If he DOES chance the Chat Room He is going to find a lot of Puns !
He's Ghana have a culture shock !

Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Community
From: Windsinger
Date: 14 Mar 06 - 12:12 PM

:::cringe:::

(Oh, Lead. :P How could you.)

Slán,

~Fionn

www.geocities.com/children_of_lir

Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Community
From: wysiwyg
Date: 14 Mar 06 - 12:22 PM

Quarcoo-- THANK you for seeing us as a community.

~Susan

Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Community
From: Rapparee
Date: 14 Mar 06 - 01:27 PM

And I live on the wrong side of the tracks!