tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post3167668214453666915..comments2024-03-26T15:57:13.443+00:00Comments on On An Overgrown Path: Colonial attitudes within Western musicUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-6133279037536191502010-11-12T13:04:20.348+00:002010-11-12T13:04:20.348+00:00Synchronicity - 'The old international star sy...Synchronicity - <i>'The old international star system is fading; it's local fame that counts'.</i><br /><br />http://www.therestisnoise.com/2010/10/jet-set-conductors.htmlPliablehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10616598845886342325noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-27863627684098883882010-11-12T11:51:10.681+00:002010-11-12T11:51:10.681+00:00Very interesting quote there - however, I suspect ...Very interesting quote there - however, I suspect that the crrative traffic is rather more than just one-way (though not, perhaps, the flow of knowledge about its creative outcome). <br /><br />I can only give one example from my own experience, but the great Sri Lankan composer, the late Master Premasiri Khemasdasa (with whom I was privileged to work in the mid-90s) was a striking example of a musician from a South Asian tradition who travelled to the west (particularly East Germany and Czechoslovakia) and used his musical experiences there to rejuvenate traditional Sinhala music theatre, integrating western instruments and performance techniques and referencing Bach, Brahms, Weill and Eisler. <br /><br />Khemadasa's stage works played to large audiences across rural and urban Sri Lanka; maybe not the elaborate economic model of the Western musuic industry, but (within Sri Lanka)financially successful and widely-heard by a mass audience, nonetheless. <br /><br />Basic Wikipedia biog here:<br />http://bit.ly/d75Mbq<br /><br />I'm certain that there must be many comparable examples in non-western cultures - about which we in the west are either unaware, or (I suspect more likely) closing our ears to western influences on musical cultures that we prefer to hear as "pure" or "other" (itself a colonial mindset). We can't simply cast musical cultures as exploiter and exploited. The reality is more complex.Halldorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12003785622088730831noreply@blogger.com