Re: [Harp-L] Gussow in Princeton or messing with the "blues tradition"

[Scott Harris <scott@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I don't get it myself.  It's music.  Play and listen to what you enjoy and if someone else likes something different - so what?


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On Oct 6, 2011, at 12:04 PM, Aongus MacCana wrote:

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