Posted by Sigismund on September 4, 2008, at 16:46:25
In reply to ENGLISH ROCK, posted by manic666 on September 4, 2008, at 8:42:57
I was speaking to someone at the station about why North America has such a wonderful tradition of music, and why Europe has lost it (did it ever have it, I mean after 1850?).
I said that it was like Russian or Indian novels. You needed a social problem that was unresolved for people to reflect on. That and the survival of religion and religious music, heaven, hell, damnation and the rest. (For evidence of the truth of this, consider Joy Division in England, the last band with a religious education and sensibility. Here is Day of the Lords
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BP-LIntM6c)The US still had it so they could do good music. Europe is far too liveable for any of that.
The person I was speaking to wasn't that impressed. She wondered if it had something to do with American verbal expressiveness.
poster:Sigismund
thread:850253
URL: http://www.dr-bob.org/babble/social/20080816/msgs/850365.html