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Thread #113211   Message #2407792
Posted By: irishenglish
07-Aug-08 - 02:55 PM
Thread Name: The Weekly Walkabout (part 2.)
Subject: RE: The Weekly Walkabout (temp.)
Yet again WAV, you seemingly will not, or cannot answer what are important questions or comments to your life's work. Do you believe that music has border checkpoints, that musical styles, and instrumentation, and subject matter are limited to the modern boundaries in which we now live? Do you believe that multiculturism is best achieved by imposing the harshest of limitations on something meant to be as universally enjoyed as music? Do you believe that, given the choice between the death of culture and language of this modern age versus the (in your view) notion of purity is really a good option? Do you believe that there has been no cross-pollinization in music up to now, that it is only this beast that we generically call "Rock" that has caused the fusion in music that you so dislike?

You also entirely missed my point about Runrig. What truely makes the Scottish form WAV? Highland or lowland? Bagpipes? Accordion? Jimmy Shand? Do you know Runrig WAV? Ok, I'm a fan, others may not be, but they are a good example for this discussion. They were certainly not the first to deliberately write songs in Scottish Gaelic (I believe that was Ossian?), but what they have helped to do is bring new life to a language that was struggling. You'd rather complain about how puristic notions make a nice multicultural world, rather than saying how awesome it is that a 15 year old kid is singing along to a Gaelic song, and maybe, just maybe-learning some of the language. Your notions of multiculturism are flawed because you impose your own sets of standards and limitations on things that I don't think you fully grasp. You can quote me all the countries you have visited, and all your Aboriginal and Native American friends on your myspace page, but that doesn't matter to me. What matters is that music and culture and language grow, day by day, year by year. Linguistically, I'm sure you have words in your vocabulary that literally did not exist as little as 10 years ago. Someone, somewhere makes up a word, it enters common usage, and next thing you know, it gets put in the dictionary as an accepted part of our language. Do you not think that happens with music WAV? Do you not think because music does not stand still, but rather, progresses, that there are bound to be changes and evolution in musical form, instrumentation, rhythm, recording, presentation and so on?
Multiculturism is alive and well, just not in the way that YOU PERSONALLY wish it to go. I think we'll get along fine though. I've got history on my side for that one.