Klarinet Archive - Posting 000448.txt from 2003/11

From: Mark Gresham <mgresham@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Geographic insularism
Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2003 23:19:38 -0500

Ormondtoby Montoya wrote:
> Another aspect of this, which applies directly to music, is that
> population centers tend to homogenize once-isolated artistic styles.
> Someday, perhaps, as the world's population increases, it will become
> difficult to find unadulterated examples of almost every art form.
> Music is certainly no exception. Geographic isolation is not a
> totally bad thing for museums and other forms of archival.

An excellent example is the impact of "cosmopolitanism" on the music two
urbanized tribes in Nigeria. Another is the impact of a expatriated
German artist on the visual and dramatic arts of Bali (he taught the
Balinese how to make their creations more "attractive" to visiting
Europeans).

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