Re: promiscuous fusionizers

[TROMBAEDU <TROMBAEDU...>]

In a message dated 12/8/99 3:58:46 PM Eastern Standard Time, media (at) 
kamea(dot)com 
writes:

<< For Jewish and Yiddish musical culture to matter and flourish, the 
traditional
 must be balanced out by the contemporary.  The musical creations of people
 living today --whose art is an expression of their actual life, not some Ben
 Shahn <shtetl- cum -Lower East -Side> fantasy world of benign, wise  rabbis 
and
 kindly, old <bubbes> -- should be given more opportunity to be heard. >>

This is also true, but my point didn't need to even extend this far to a 
conceptual framework such as Wolf is expressing. It's very simple-Musicians 
create what they know-sometimes starting from a preexisting tradition or 
material, sometimes only vaguely connected to music that's gone before. Our 
job is not to condemn it just because it doesn't match our preconceived 
notions. Musicologists are free to argue over genre cross pollination, but 
that has nothing to do with the living music involved.

Jordan 

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