[Harp-L] Gussow in Princeton or messing with the "blues tradition"
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- Subject: [Harp-L] Gussow in Princeton or messing with the "blues tradition"
- From: "Aongus MacCana" <amaccana@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2011 20:04:25 +0100
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This kind of argument is endemic in Irish Trad, where the "true
traditionalists" see "no good reason to play a tune any other way than the
way it always has been played" - regardless of the fact that it already has
been played in a myriad of different ways and versions.
However I did not expect to find this kind of angst among members of the
Blues community, where I (mistakenly?) thought that improvisation and doing
your own thing was the name of the game.
Beannachtai
Aongus Mac Cana
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