Subject: [Harp-L] Re; Hispanic Harp Players

[EGS1217@xxxxxxx]

I remember the Texas players thread, as well as the NE players, so decided  
to check the archives.
 
 
In October 2011 there were a couple of posts about North Eastern  players 
which segued to Texas players. From what I can see you tossed in  Mickey 
Raphael to begin, got a response from Michael Rubin listing about 14  names 
while explaining that there were so many more, then Slim mentioned  one other 
player and the thread seemed to fade out from there.
 
 
I couldn't find anything negative or a hint of a pc 'slap down'  relating 
to the topic.
 
 
As far as this being ethnocentric I don't see how? Michael has students who 
 themselves are hispanic and are interested in knowing to whom else they 
might be  able to relate, especially since harmonica playing in Texas for 
latino players  was traditionally geared to Tejano music? I'm guessing his 
students are  more interested in blues and looking for players like themselves to 
 emulate. I might ask the same question about Scottish Chromatic players 
for  myself. 
 
 
For my tastes I would add Javier Argomedo ('Diabluz') from Chile, and both  
Pablo Fagundes and Thiego Cerveira from Brazil to the previous list, all of 
 whom have visited and played at Spah. Both Javier and Pablo have several  
YouTubes available.
 
 
Here's an interesting clip of Howard Levy with Thiago and  Melk Rocha 
--looks as though it's from SPAH 2010 from the tag Melk's  wearing.
 
_http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5uCNhxc6AKM_ 
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5uCNhxc6AKM)  
 
 
Elizabeth
 
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Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2012 15:47:02 -0500
From: David Terry  <walkincane@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [Harp-L] Re; Hispanic Harp  Players
To: harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx

Funny thing here.Last year I started a  thread which went from N.E. Harp
Players and Texas harp players and got  slapped down w/in 2 days of thread
due to others saying it was not fair to  other (countries /groups choose
your poison) how is this different and not  ethno-centric or nationalist?
P.C. has gone along ways to make a one way  street for some.


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