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Re: demand for "authentic" ethnic

At 05:49 PM 1/7/00 -0500, Skip Heller wrote:

>It's a touchy issue, but that word "authentic" is segregationist, and music
>is really for people, not just "people who know about the special stuff">
>
>sh

Yet again, Skip, I agree.  The word "authentic" is fraught with all sorts 
of problems.  Current ethnomusicologiical teaching (ah oh - the dreaded 
academe!) seems to favor the term "traditional".  I think it works.

Shira

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