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- From: robertk@rkrajewski.lotus.com (Robert Krajewski)
- Subject: Re: The "Musicality of Dancing" (Was Re: Top 10 bands of all time)
- In-Reply-To: leo@ph.tn.tudelft.nl's message of Fri, 20 Nov 1992 08:19:34 GMT
- Message-ID: <ROBERTK.92Nov20145757@rkrajewski.lotus.com>
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- References: <1992Nov19.021354.11761@netcom.com> <1992Nov19.183730.21223@pellns.alleg.edu>
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- Date: 20 Nov 92 14:57:57
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- In article <leo.722247574@galaxy> leo@ph.tn.tudelft.nl (Leo Breebaart) writes:
-
- Not to mention that Pete Townshend's 'Face the Face' is one of my own
- favourite 'white' dance songs of all time (note careful subjective
- wording there!). I just *can't* sit still when I hear it.
-
- It used to be that people would just dance to music.
-
- Now we have dance music.
-
- The great thing about dance music is that, once you call something
- "dance music," that's what they play in the dance clubs. Stuff that
- isn't made just for dancing can't be dance music anymore.
-
- It doesn't even matter if it's funky. Even rap isn't "dance music" in
- a lot of dance clubs, because it might actually say something or not
- use easy-reader 4/4 martial rhythms that are so easy to program with a
- drum machine.
-