The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #63856 Message #1040454
Posted By: Malcolm Douglas
23-Oct-03 - 11:57 AM
Thread Name: Creating modern traditional music
Subject: RE: Creating modern traditional music
1) No; though it may become traditional later on.
2) A great deal.
3) No.
4) When that immigrant group perceives itself, and is perceived, as a part of the majority culture.
As to the "nationalisation" of repertoire, many tunes (for example) of Irish origin and played in Scotland have become part of Scottish tradition, but they will always be of Irish origin, however they are perceived. In the same way, I describe myself as "English, of Anglo-Scottish descent".
Read also R. Vaughan Williams on the development of a National (art) Music from a creative synthesis of traditional forms.