Re: FW: Re: [Harp-L] re: Blues in Nurnburg



Hi

Am Donnerstag, 25. Januar 2007 15:23 schrieb r_buschner@xxxxxxxxxxx:

>Am Donnerstag, 25. Januar 2007 14:47 schrieb jross38@xxxxxxxxxxx:
> > How about actually checking out the culture you'll be visiting.

Yes, Nurenburg is an intersting place for checking german culture, at 
least a small part of it (there is no "german"culture". cultural 
differences are as much between north and south, east and west as 
there are differences within the USA)

...but...

> > looking for German music, rather than some rehashed version of an
> > American form.  See what German folk or other music is there.

> Concerning german folk music: What you get here, is commercial
> bullsh**. Sorry for the hard word, but that's it. It's pop-music
> played by people in fantasy costumes pretended to be traditional
> costumes, and the music has a kind of folkish touch, but that's
> all. When someone is looking for real folk music, he has to know
> some people in a village in the mountains, playing together at
> home, or something like that. It's a much better idea to look for
> blues people and beeing amongst friends then, liking the same stuff
> than they do, taking the blues as a "common language".
>
> That's the reality...not a romantic vision...

i second Ralf in this. There´s some tradition of authentic folk music, 
but it´s nowhere perforned publically actually and very, very few 
play it stil today.
There is a market for - so called - german folk music of course, but 
as Ralf described it´s definately not worth listening to it, actually 
it´s so poor, infantile and %&$§# that i usually become agressive 
from listening to it, even though i´m usually very open mined when it 
comes music styles.

Blues developed from american and european music influences and after 
all the european influence in blues is still strong enough to make it 
nearly as authentical german as most of what is sold as german folk 
music today.

-- 
Gruß,Frank





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