Hi pattyClink,

I'm not talking about universal, actually. Just music that has become indigenous to North America that isn't dominated by the Anglo-Celtic stuff.

The music side of this forum is pretty much dominated by British posters now, and American posters whose interests run along the lines I mentioned above: contemporary acoustic (that is my nice way of saying the urban, often academic based "folk revival" music and it's popular music descendants like Dylan, Baez, etc).

Now don't get me wrong, it isn't that popular artists shouldn't or wouldn't be discussed there. I'm crazy about the Dixie Chicks and Ricky Scaggs, for instance.

But I am saying there is no place online to discuss North American traditional music & music cultures.

It couldn't happen here at Mudcat, because it is already dominated by the Anglo Celtic & contemporary stuff. That's fine. Mudcat is a great place to do that. I started this thread as an aside to the one I linked to at the top. North American traditional music rarely gets discussed at Mudcat, because it isn't a place conducive to the discussion. I'm pining for a more limited forum, not a more universal one like Mudcat.