Re: Thoughts on ethnic music after reading certain recent posts

[I. Oppenheim <i.oppenheim...>]

On Sun, 14 Sep 2003 elliott_simon (at) dca(dot)net wrote:

> perhaps honesty is the wrong word....i was looking
> for a word to describe it and came up with that
> one...

I'm also not sure what you mean with honesty in this
context.

> for example i dont find much of this
> "grounding" in vegas style show music....

Do you mean authencity?

> it is a roots thing...and of course the performer has
> to be good..but there is a "soul" to ethnic
> music...that a good musician can tap into....elliott

Or music with "neshomme"?


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