Re: Culturnal homogenization/hybridization -- some incomplete thoughts.

[Eugene Coyle <eugenecoyle@xxxxxxx>]

Once in a bar in Glasgow, Scotland with Hannah Creighton and sitting
near the bandstand at a table with several locals.  A county and
western singer was pretty good.  At the end of the set the band sat
down  and drank with us and I couldn't understand a word they said.
They sang western but the talked Glaswegian.

Gene Coyle


On Jan 12, 2008, at 9:17 AM, Doug Henwood wrote:

> On Jan 12, 2008, at 12:02 PM, Jim Devine wrote:
>
> > (FWIW, I remember visiting Mexico and Guatemala in 1976. The music of
> > Barry White (!!) was very popular in Mexico, while they were playing
> > Paul McCartney's "stupid little love song" (dreck!) all over
> > Guatemala. The local music seemed to be losing out.)
>
> I think I've mentioned this before, but in 2001, I heard an aborigine
> singing "Okie from Muskogee" at the Aboriginal Cultural Center in
> Adelaide, Australia. I was told that aborigines love American country
> music - they love the themes of poverty, loneliness, alcohol, and
> resentment of urban elites.
>
> Doug