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Thread #110424   Message #2459993
Posted By: GUEST,Volgadon
08-Oct-08 - 06:15 AM
Thread Name: England's National Musical-Instrument?
Subject: RE: England's National Musical-Instrument?
MC has adopted (and adapted) many of of the technics and quirks of 'American' genres, including rock and blues, dear boy. If I am not mistaken, he usually doesn't SING American songs, because when he does they don't carry the same conviction as English ones. He has on ocassion recorded some, though! He also doesn't have any problems with taking songs from elsewhere and anglicising them! Even performed Australian and NZ songs! Add to that the Basque and Breton tunes he uses for ballads and songs!

Wav, not everyone wants to be a nationalist. You can be patriotic and proud of your nation without being a nationalist of the kind you are suggesting, what's more, you propose to CREATE new English national culture, so if you can, why can't others?
Linking those things to nationalism eventually KILLS them.