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Thread #91497   Message #1743355
Posted By: BuckMulligan
18-May-06 - 03:03 PM
Thread Name: Folklore: Adopting Alien Traditions
Subject: RE: Folklore: Adopting Alien Traditions
well according to the "race memory" notion, there must be some woodpile Finnish in yer genome, else how could it possibly speak to you - you wouldn't know what it was saying.

The whole problem with the notion of "race memory" as it might apply to music, (besides the fact that the notion itself is daft) is that it relies on music itself possessing some intrinsic, ethnically traceable qualities; which it can't.