The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #104809 Message #2153986
Posted By: M.Ted
20-Sep-07 - 10:07 PM
Thread Name: Is the heyday of collecting over
Subject: RE: Is the heyday of collecting over
Thanks for that post, Mr. Miles. It creates an interesting and surprising new direction for this already tempestuous thread.
Of course, the congress and it's recommendations reflect classic American post-war "Marshall Plan" thinking-only instead of agriculture, industry, and economies, the aim was to rebuild the cultures that had been destroyed. The idea being that the indigenous music and dance were shared natural resources that could be used to forge nations, or some such..
I would say that considerable arrogance, and intellectual elitism underlay all of this. Also, ironically, despite the efforts of the experts, the music that post war youth embraced was rock'n'roll. And the dances that they embraced were not indigieous folk dances.