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Doug Henwood wrote:
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> On Jun 9, 2006, at 1:37 PM, joanna wrote:
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>> ut it touched a sore spot: I eat at a neighborhood Indian restaurant
>> as often as I can and they have their TV permanently tuned to some
>> bollywood-type station. And on that station I see something which, I
>> don't know, seems a silly imitation of Western pop and dance, and
>> it's heartbreaking when I think of how much richer the native
>> traditions are.
>
>
> Evidently they don't think so. We have a lot of rich classical
> traditions in the West, but I doubt a TV at a local restaurant would
> be showing Balanchine ballets, or its CD player playing Beethoven
> string quartets. Besides, a lot of our Western pop & dance are pretty
> good. And maybe a lot of "Eastern" cultures get tired of playing the
> retro-exotics for alienated Westerners and want to join the commodity-
> ridden high-tech world so many of us disdain.
>
> Doug
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