collective ownership of music

Date: 19 Jul 2003 12:03:17 GMT
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> "Also, acquaint yourself with the nature of folk music. Consider how
> folk music is transmitted and the way in which members of a society
> feel a sense of owenrship of the material."
> "Ownership" is what gets me....it's the writer's song, even for
> something like "Amazing Grace". It may be of popular appeal, but
> it is not _our_ song..
Look up the chapter about the Britannia Coconut Dancers in the book
"Step Change" about the politics of English folkdance.
Another: I heard a musicologist on R adio 3 a year or two ago talking
about something he'd encountered in South America (Paraguay, I think);
a culture that played aurally-transmitted versions of multi-voice art
music from the Spanish Renaissance on local folk instruments. This
was quite a find, so he asked if he could record it. They said "no
you can't, this is our music, haven't you got enough of your own?"
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