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gimme gimme
Join Date: Dec 2012
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There really aren't enough fans on MB of either of those genres to justify their own categories. Takes up space. Also, if you're passionate about Tibetan and/or Brazilian music, it may be better to join forums dedicated to those genres only. Because you definitely won't find that many fans here.
I'm not referring to the actually existing content in World Music or Country. I'm referring to posted content from contributors here at MB. You'll find that many of the members of this forum are metal, rap, electronic, or indie music fans. Or maybe not. Is there a poll around for that? |
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Groupie
Join Date: Jul 2013
Location: Bay Area
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What caused the change in philosophy to the three genres? McCarthy more or less. As you are probably well aware, there was a huge backlash against Communism and most liberal philosophies in the 1950s. Many folk artists were either directly or indirectly linked to the Communist movement (Seeger was a Communist, Guthrie was very obviously a Communist sympathizer) and as more folk artists were being questioned, many members of the Country community didn't want to be seen as questionable to the government, so the genre generally gravitated even more to the Conservative train of thought and culture, allowing the similarities between Country and Western to become so prevelant that they almost no longer existed. |
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Music Addict
Join Date: Jun 2013
Location: Bet you won't locate it, will you?
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Everyone is, I believe, aware of the fact that country and folk are the horses of another colour, but concidering the daily capacity of this forum (in comparison with other ones on MB), the connecting of those different music worlds with each other is the most reasonable solution, at least for that moment.
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Model Worker
Join Date: Jan 2009
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I wanted to start a educational thread on outernational music like Brazilian, Afro-Caribbean, French pop, dub reggae, Italian soundtracks and other more esoteric musical forms but I really don't know where to put it. I was thinking about either the indie music or the general music forum because nobody seems to read anything in this forum.
I really don't think country music belongs in the International music thread. My thought is that country and folk music should be in a single forum. Maybe call it the Americana and Roots Music forum to keep up with contemporary descriptors for the genres. Another name for the forum could be "No Depression" forum which is from an early Wilco song and used by a lot of folks to describe a broader genre that includes Americana, roots music, country, folk blues and traditional folk music. International music should share a forum with reggae music, along with a group of very specific electronic artists who specialize in dub remixes of third world music. You call the forum "Outernational Music" which is the term Thievery Corporation uses for the new internationalist music movement. My own broader definition of international music includes outernational electronic groups like Air, Thievery Corporation, Orb (but not Orbital), Bebo Best, Jazzanova, Blank and Jones, Bob Sinclar, Chris Joss, Ursula 1000, Dimitri from Paris, Elizabeth Butterfly and other electronica artists who do a lot of remixing of reggae, Brazilian jazz, European soundtracks, trip hop and French house music.
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...here to hear...
Join Date: Nov 2010
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Paradoxically, the term "international music", that you use, could be thought of as referring to the very music which is excluded from this particular forum; music that has so little regional content that it could come from/be popular anywhere in the world. In this sense, the other MB forums are full of international music; electronica, pop, even jazz now that it´s broken out of it´s regional cradle. Quote:
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However, although the names "No Depression" and "Outernational" sound really cool, they won´t be as clear to anyone as the present forum title is. It would be like calling the electronica thread "Morganspaziergang" because that´s the name of a Kraftwerk track. Finally, Gavin B., I´d like to apologize for being so picky about your post. I´ve read with great admiration some of the things you´ve posted in MB and the last thing I want to do is to scare you away from contributing to this section of MB. What I´d love to see is you starting your thread here, and with the reputation that your name carries, anyone who is interested will follow the thread. The bottom line is, as you know, that threads should be located according to topic, not according to how much attention they might receive. ![]()
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