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- From: cockburn@edieng.enet.dec.com (Craig Cockburn)
- Subject: Re: New Age vs Enya & Clannad
- Message-ID: <1992Dec30.125525.22172@rdg.dec.com>
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- Organization: Digital Equipment Co. Ltd., Reading, England
- References: <10763@vtserf.cc.vt.edu> <1992Dec29.192718.3676@wam.umd.edu>
- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 11:53:00 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec29.192718.3676@wam.umd.edu>, delwell@wam.umd.edu (Daniel W. Elwell) writes...
- >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.
- >
- >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
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- So have many rock musicians. The anthem of the 60's "The times they are
- a-changin'" bears quite a resemblence to "Wild Rover" for instance. "Rock"
- has drawn on folk music quite extensively, which is why I think giving
- more air time to folk music might encourage more diversity in other
- forms of music descended from folk, including rock.
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