The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #49605   Message #749331
Posted By: Dicho (Frank Staplin)
16-Jul-02 - 07:54 PM
Thread Name: BS: Are there any Asian Mudcatters
Subject: RE: BS: Are there any Yellow Mudcatters
In a hamlet in northern Alberta (Canada) where we were doing field work, the only restaurant was Chinese. The cook was fluent in both Chinese and English, and he used to belt out American cowboy-country songs in Chinese while he was cooking (perhaps just as well we couldn't understand him). This also was the only entertainment in town.

The Chinese have a large and varied repertoire of "trad" music, equal to or larger than that of western Europe and those offshore isles. We don't sing their songs and they don't sing ours. I don't find this surprising.