Posted on 04/20/2024 12:50:45 PM PDT by Fiji Hill
The cakewalk music derives from the “stride piano” style of playing (walking bass line as it is called). The prize for the best walk was... a cake.
Then entire development of minstrel shows into fully promote d ethnic (as they were called) productions which employed a lot of very talented descendants of slaves which became the true American music, including blues and jazz. Originating in the countryside, close to the land by people who worked on their own or sharecropped land. The list of performers fill many musicology publications. White and black minstrel shows evolving to Vaudeville into the jazz age. Inseperable- unlike what this chinese clueless person believes she knows- she probably knows even less Chinese heritage music (because the Communist Chinese suppress “lesser” people’s music within the vast expanse of land. This person imho is some kind of cultural maven re-educator type imported to remove culture for their coming State. Not gonna happen.
Here’s an example of a regional ethnic music that was (and still is) suppressed by Chinese Communists...for decades, and also when it was Manchukuo, by the Empire of Japan.
These people (rulers listening) are descended from Ghengis Khan (maybe that’s why the chinese suppress them— long memory).Musical people will note the melody of this tune, and key changes are pentatonic minor scales and alterations- fantastic throat singing. Think Mongolian pony cavalry-— grace in battle. The samisen like instrument player does a classic blues scale- surprise.
The Mother (praising motherhood) ,Song by Altai:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIRzTd_Rtqc
I am not so easily offended by this PC stuff. The Irish have never objected to Notre Dame being called the “Fighting Irish”, which implies that the Irish are naturally violent, or calling police wagons and vans used to incarcerate large numbers of people “paddy wagons”. Personally, I wish the news outlets would stop publishing headlines using “pushes back” for responds, or “claw back” to mean recover. The over use of phrasal verbs is very British, and some of us remember being taught to avoid them when we wrote as the mark of an educated person.
The author fits the stereotype of the arrogant university-grad commie.
Unless I trip over it.
LOL!
Great music.
Utterly fascinating! If I weren't paying attention, I might have mistaken that beautiful piece for some of the movie scores written by the Italian composer Ennio Morricone for the "spaghetti western" films. It's amazing to think that a people who ride horses could devise such similar music in two diverse spots in the world—the tempi are remarkably similar, and echo the steady rhythm of hoofbeats, while the melodies evoke the adventuresome freedom and daring of riding swiftly across a vast expanse on horseback.
I suppose, since these Mongolian musicians are living now, that they could have heard the western movie music and incorporated it. We may never know.
Ennio Morricone: Theme Song from The Good, The Bad and the Uglly
a more simpler reply is due ....
SHADDUP N MAKE ME A SANDWICH!
And I particularly dislike “claps back”. Who clapped first?
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