music and the p-word

[Judith R Cohen <judithc...>]

hi, as an example of how separating discussions of music from
discussions of politics does/n't(?), work, I posed my message about the
Palestinian-Jewish concert to Sephardic discussion lists. It received no
comment whatsoever except a furious message from someone living in
Israel who asked why I "dared" "enjoy" a concert , any concert at all,
let alone one with "our enemies" while he and his family and other
Israelis were suffering. 

Meanwhile, a different peace concert was cancelled: it was to be part of
the events of European Day of Jewish Culture, June 16, in the same
Spanish town about which I've written several articles describing their
invented "Jewish" festival which includes, among many other things,
music played by the local folk group and largely learned from my and
Gerineldo cd's as well as Gloria Levy's. Already, when I was there
briefly in May, the signs reading things like "Friend of Sefarad" had
been defaced with red paint and swastikas, which Town Hall had not "got
around" to having cleaned; now, June 16's activities were supposed to
include a "concert for peace". A friend from the town wrote me the other
day to tell me Town Hall cancelled this and all other activities for the
day - "in solidarity with the Palestinian people."
Judith

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