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What has America done for the music tradition of Western Civilization?
WesternCulture
Posted on 09/11/2014 4:45:53 PM PDT by WesternCulture
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To: Sawdring
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posted on
09/11/2014 5:06:16 PM PDT
by
Squawk 8888
(Will steal your comments & post them on Twitter)
To: RoosterRedux
I don’t know about that. It’s considered traditional.
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posted on
09/11/2014 5:06:40 PM PDT
by
trisham
(Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
To: WesternCulture
but at least we Europeans are fostered in the great tradition of composers like the giants mentioned above.Hard rock is blues based and is very American. Metal is classical based which is why it started in Europe.
However, the hard rock torch is now being carried by Sweeden these days, which I don't get, but love you guys for it.
To: reg45
Richard Rodgers’ score for Victory At Sea comes immediately to mind. Not a movie, but close enough.
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posted on
09/11/2014 5:07:16 PM PDT
by
Fresh Wind
(The last remnants of the Old Republic have been swept away.)
To: WesternCulture
Your ignorance of American music is no basis for a conclusion that America has contributed nothing.
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posted on
09/11/2014 5:07:56 PM PDT
by
CodeToad
(Romney is a raisin cookie looking for chocolate chip cookie votes.)
To: WesternCulture
something must be wrong with a nation that year after year produces crap like the music of 50 Cent, Katy Perry and Lady Gaga. Really. Tell me about it. Its worse than that, though. Have you heard what passes for country music these days?
:)
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posted on
09/11/2014 5:08:06 PM PDT
by
marron
To: RegulatorCountry
Ever heard of ABBA or Avicii?
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posted on
09/11/2014 5:08:06 PM PDT
by
Roman_War_Criminal
(Bible Summary in a few verses: John 14:6, John 6:29, Romans 10:9-10)
To: RoosterRedux
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posted on
09/11/2014 5:08:12 PM PDT
by
trisham
(Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
To: RegulatorCountry
To: WesternCulture
But this is why I love Pandora (streaming radio) and I have loaded my Kindle to the gills with music.
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posted on
09/11/2014 5:09:18 PM PDT
by
marron
To: ClearCase_guy
Virtually all of America's music comes from negroes and I will openly say I am not proud of it, and it think it has been destructive to our society. The jungle beat is not the heart beat of advancing civilization. I would not have said that 10 years ago -- but Obama and Holder have freed me to join the honest conversation about race which is so long overdue.
Very well said and I agree completely. Even here on Free Republic, I find too many defending that kind of "music", be it rap or that so-called jumpy "soul" music. I don't even like it when Mark Levin plays that harsh caterwauling of Ray Charles. The song "America the Beautiful" is meant to be solemn and reverential -- not a bunch of wild screaming. Years ago, I've wrote him asking that it be replaced by a military chorus or soloist like this moving rendition.
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posted on
09/11/2014 5:09:33 PM PDT
by
re_nortex
(DP - that's what I like about Texas)
To: WesternCulture
Just another America bashing thread from you the Euroweenie.
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posted on
09/11/2014 5:09:56 PM PDT
by
CodeToad
(Romney is a raisin cookie looking for chocolate chip cookie votes.)
To: WesternCulture
53
posted on
09/11/2014 5:10:14 PM PDT
by
dead
(I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
To: WesternCulture
54
posted on
09/11/2014 5:10:22 PM PDT
by
trisham
(Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
To: WesternCulture
“we Swedes have Alvén”
Proper spelling is Alfvén. I apologize.
To: WesternCulture
Duke Ellington
Benny Goodman
Swing
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posted on
09/11/2014 5:11:27 PM PDT
by
HandyDandy
(Started out with Burgundy but soon hit the harder stuff....)
To: ClearCase_guy
Virtually all of America's music comes from negroes and I will openly say I am not proud of it, and it think it has been destructive to our society. The jungle beat is not the heart beat of advancing civilization. Not all music by Negroes is jungle beat. Negro spirituals, which W. E. B. Du Bois, in his book The Soul of Black Folk (Chicago; McClurg, 1903) called the only art form native to America, can be quite melodic. George Gershwin's work was heavily influenced by black American music.
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posted on
09/11/2014 5:11:46 PM PDT
by
Fiji Hill
(e)
To: Squawk 8888
Did you know that the apartment in NYC where Dvorak wrote The New World Symphony was converted into homosexual health facility just a few years back?
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posted on
09/11/2014 5:14:00 PM PDT
by
HandyDandy
(Started out with Burgundy but soon hit the harder stuff....)
To: WesternCulture
Yeah?
We play AC/DC over a loudspeaker, while kicking someone’s ass on behalf of your lazy ass...
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posted on
09/11/2014 5:15:06 PM PDT
by
Vendome
(Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
To: trisham
Let's not forget that the Beatles, Clapton, and the Stones were influenced greatly by early American rock. For example, who was the most covered artist by the Beatles on their albums?
Carl Perkins.
Check out "Million Dollar Quartet" when you get the chance...great story...great music. My 12 YO son and I spent 3 hours at Sun Studio in Memphis earlier this year. It was an unforgettable adventure, being in a place where musical history was made.
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posted on
09/11/2014 5:15:10 PM PDT
by
Night Hides Not
(Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad! Remember Mississippi!)
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