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- From: delwell@wam.umd.edu (Daniel W. Elwell)
- Subject: Re: New Age vs Enya & Clannad
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- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 19:27:18 GMT
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- In Article 19272 billrich@caspian.ext.vt.edu writes:
- >New Age is some of the most atrocious "music" I have heard, seeming to
- >begin from the false hypothesis that you can create something entirely
- >"new" without any influences.
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- While I agree that a lot of New Age music has little to recommed itself,
- I think that the more successful New Age performers, e.g. George Winston
- and Mannheim Steamroller, have been strongly influenced by the folk and
- acoustic traditions. IMO New Age in general lacks the structure that
- folk & acoustic music do, making it slightly more pleasing to listen to
- than white noise. Still I have to give the performers credit for being
- to do pretty darn good stuff, given proper motivation.
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- -The opinions expressed above are not anybody else's, except by accident.
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- Daniel W. Elwell (delwell@wam.umd.edu)
- Applied Mathematics Program, University of Maryland at College Park
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