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Thread #124309   Message #2745063
Posted By: Fred McCormick
13-Oct-09 - 01:18 PM
Thread Name: English folk is 'world music'?
Subject: RE: English folk is 'world music'?
"Uh oh, is that the sound of galloping hooves I hear......?"

Horsemusic Sir! If English music, or Scots, or Irish, or American can be thought of as seperate entities, with seperate identities, why lump the rest of the world under a heading as banal and meaningless as world music? On the other hand, if the musicians of Bulgaria, Mexico, Chile, Madascar, the Gambia or wherever can be thought of as custodians of the music of this world, what about the rest of us?

As a citizen of this world, I demand parity with the Bulgarians.