<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 4/16/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Wojtek Sokolowski</b> <<a href="mailto:wsokol52@yahoo.com">wsokol52@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br><br>Correct me if I am wrong, but this notion of "musical<br>loyalty" is manly the US phenomenon, grown out of the<br>incredible infestation of the US consciousness with<br>religiosity. My limited understanding of, say,
<br>African music is that these guys have no qualms in<br>borrowing any stuff that fits them and transforming it<br>to local tastes.<br></blockquote></div><br>What about the shock to Stravinsky's "Rite of Spring?" or the idea that a musician is a "sell-out" if s/he is too commercial? The accusation of sell-out is usually leveled at a person in a commercial culture when s/he has "abadoned" a niche audience for a large scale audience. The shock of the new is largely a reaction of middle class audiences against the so called "avant garde." The reaction, the sense of betrayal is essentially the same.
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