"World" music

[podakayne]

just to throw some dirt on this whole "thing"...it kills me the necessity of lables...

why would American Indian music be the only "tribal" music or does it have to be the music of the indigenous people to make it tribal? ethnic? what about american country(i asked a while back why keith urban whos an aussie sings amer. country and how if there were an aussie equivalent sound there), american jazz(world, ethnic?), american r&b(ethnic?), american rockNroll, it's all tribal in nature if you look at the roots(no pun intended)...but alas the human thing is to catogorize it so it's not lost in a sea of sounds. as we all know there are many items(music) that transend categories, but we are creatures of discription and the need to place some kind of box around a thing—to neatly put it in a place. whether that's in our heads or ears, is politcally correct (and that crap changes too often for my taste) or otherwise noted will continue to be a human phenomenon (or however you correctly spell it)

backing out slowly

interesting thread