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Polka Music Is Eliminated as Grammy Award Category
NY Times ^
| Published: June 4, 2009
| BEN SISARIO
Posted on 06/05/2009 1:35:50 PM PDT by a fool in paradise
After 24 years, polka has had its last dance at the Grammys.
The Recording Academy, which bestows the Grammy Awards, announced late on Wednesday that the polka category would be eliminated, saying in a statement that it had been cut to ensure the awards process remains representative of the current musical landscape.
To many in the polka world, that read as a kind of industry code meaning that their genre once capable of supporting artists with million-selling hits, but long since relegated to micro-niche status had slipped off the mainstream radar entirely.
Its devastating, said Carl Finch of Brave Combo, a band from Denton, Tex., that has won the Grammy twice. Polka is so misunderstood, you know, the butt of jokes. Having a polka category was the most important step to legitimacy that we could ever hope to achieve. To have that taken away, its like it was all for nothing.
The news was met with sadness but little surprise. The number of albums considered by the Recording Academy for the polka award has dwindled in recent years. In 2006, for example, only 20 albums were considered, and of the five nominees, only one album had wide distribution.
When it gets down to around 20 entries, just by entering, you have a one in five chance of being nominated, said Bill Freimuth, the academys vice president for awards. Thats not as competitive as wed like these awards to be.
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TOPICS: Music/Entertainment; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: bigotry; culturewar; grammy; music; polish; polka; polkamusic; riaa
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To: Army Air Corps
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posted on
06/05/2009 1:53:19 PM PDT
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mylife
(The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
To: a fool in paradise
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06/05/2009 1:58:48 PM PDT
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mylife
(The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
To: dfwgator
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posted on
06/05/2009 1:59:13 PM PDT
by
fishtank
(The denial of original sin is the root of liberalism.)
To: mylife
Here is their only English (mostly)
song.
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posted on
06/05/2009 2:01:11 PM PDT
by
Army Air Corps
(Four fried chickens and a coke)
To: Army Air Corps
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posted on
06/05/2009 2:03:17 PM PDT
by
mylife
(The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
To: a fool in paradise
I think this is because rivalries between east coast and west coast polka groups were causing too much violence.
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posted on
06/05/2009 2:03:49 PM PDT
by
Yaelle
To: a fool in paradise
Dude, that is:
To: a fool in paradise
To: mylife
A group called
Turbo Angels is also pretty good. Also Ana Rotar has some nice songs (like
this one). Then, there is always
Niki.
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06/05/2009 2:07:03 PM PDT
by
Army Air Corps
(Four fried chickens and a coke)
To: Army Air Corps
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posted on
06/05/2009 2:07:30 PM PDT
by
tet68
( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
To: Army Air Corps
All this is far more interesting than Eminem L0L
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posted on
06/05/2009 2:09:46 PM PDT
by
mylife
(The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
To: tet68
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posted on
06/05/2009 2:11:22 PM PDT
by
mylife
(The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
To: mylife
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posted on
06/05/2009 2:11:33 PM PDT
by
Army Air Corps
(Four fried chickens and a coke)
To: mylife
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posted on
06/05/2009 2:12:30 PM PDT
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Army Air Corps
(Four fried chickens and a coke)
To: Army Air Corps
I love listening to Atomik Harmonik...yeah...listening...that’s the part I like...;)
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posted on
06/05/2009 2:12:39 PM PDT
by
stefanbatory
(Do you want a President or a King?)
To: a fool in paradise
What, rap doesn’t qualify as “spoken word”?
To: Army Air Corps
I never hear any of this on Radio Slovakia.
Oh well.. I like the videos better than radio anyway!
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06/05/2009 2:13:51 PM PDT
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mylife
(The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
To: tet68
That is one of their best. There is also
this one.
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posted on
06/05/2009 2:14:29 PM PDT
by
Army Air Corps
(Four fried chickens and a coke)
To: a fool in paradise
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posted on
06/05/2009 2:16:04 PM PDT
by
Daffynition
("If any of you die, can I please have your ammo?" ~ Gator113)
To: stefanbatory
Well, a couple of their singers have, uh, lotsa talent. Watch their ode to
Chocolate.
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posted on
06/05/2009 2:17:00 PM PDT
by
Army Air Corps
(Four fried chickens and a coke)
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