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Thread #137267 Message #3142123
Posted By: Jack Campin
25-Apr-11 - 02:21 PM
Thread Name: A very uncomfortable question- perform other trads
Subject: RE: A very uncomfortable question- perform other trads
You get more options with calypso's descendant, rap. There so many variants of it now that no sort of central tradition exists any more. People rap in just about every language on earth. It's probably the most rapidly globalized musical idiom there has ever been. I just checked on YouTube with a bunch of small nations and minority cultures:
Burushaski Rap
Ossetian Rap
Abkhaz Rap
Korean rap video dubbed into Hmong (I think)
Fijian Indian rap (English/Punjabi?)
At what point would an attempt to do calypso in geographic and cultural isolation simply become a reinvention of rap?