Re: promiscuous fusionizers (footnote)

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Rob, do you know how to get cd's or video tapes featuring Yiddish music.  We
have a video on the Vilna (Russia) Jews and the music is great.
-----Original Message-----
From: Robert Cohen <rlcm17 (at) hotmail(dot)com>
To: World music from a Jewish slant <jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org>
Date: Sunday, December 12, 1999 3:35 PM
Subject: Re: promiscuous fusionizers (footnote)


>I'm going to mostly stay on the periphery here, listening (isn't that a lot
>better than "lurking"--sounds like I'm going to mug someone), but I I do
>want to mention that Ari's point makes me think, by (loose) analogy of (my
>disdain for) the Gershwin estate, which is especially zealous about
>protecting, and extending, the copyright to melodies that were originally,
>in some cases at least, borrowed (or fused) from other sources--like our
>liturgy. -- rlc
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>>From: Ari Davidow <ari (at) IVRITYPE(dot)COM>
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>>And, too, to associate fusion with promiscuity, as though a bad thing,
>>when talking about a music originally fused from many older styles,
>>does raise exactly those issues we tend to go back and forth discussing
>>here ;-).
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>>Ari Davidow
>>ari (at) ivritype(dot)com
>>list owner, jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org
>>the klezmer shack: http://www.klezmershack.com/
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