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[a_svirn]

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> > Betsy Hp:
> > Well, you're the doctoral student (I believe) so I'll have to 
take 
> > your word for it. <g>  Though it flies in the face of everything 
> > I've ever read on the history of rock music.  (What culture, 
> > totally seperated from the US also created rock?  I'm genuinely 
> > curious.)


> Nora:
> Not totally separated, but 'rock' is hardly a monolithic 
phenomenon 
> with explicit and totally tracable paths of evolution--which is 
part 
> of why people argue so hard about its origins.  There are popular 
> musics elsewhere in the world which have some definite 
similarities, 
> although it becomes very difficult to separate things out.  

a_svirn:
I suppose there are popular musics elsewhere, but either they are 
rock and thus derivative or they are something else and thus they 
are something else. For instance if, say, the scale of Chinese music 
is pentatonic you can hardly expect the popular tunes based on it to 
be anything like those based on a diatonic seven-note scale. Of 
course, the great break-up with muggles occurred only in the end of 
the 17th century, so there wouldn't be much difference where scales 
and pitches are concerned, but still I can hardly imagine wizards 
coming up with anything "rock-like" on their own. 

> Nora:
>The whole 
> idea of 'pure' culture is pretty laughable, of course.

a_svirn:
Whose idea is that?