WB on its critics

[Rob Schaap]

>> On cross-pollination: At an opening at the aboriginal arts center in
>> Adelaide, Australia, a couple of weeks ago, we heard an aboriginal
>> man playing guitar with a karaoke-style tape in the instrumental
>> background singing "Okie from Muskogee."
>>
>> Doug
>========
>Bless hybridity.

Yeah, but it ain't *cross*-pollination until Merle Haggard plays Treaty on
the didgereedoo, is it?

Globalisation, my arse ...


>Aborigines love American country music.

This may be so (I wouldn't have a clue), but the ones who make it to the
public ear are (thankfully) not C&W types.  Mainly topical folksters
(Archie Roach), assertive rocksters (eg Warumpi Band) and anthemic popsters
(Yothu Yindi).  I can at least recommend all three of those - not least
because they're all good gutsy lyricists.

Cheers,
Rob.