Re: nada brahma

I prefer top-posting. I can see in my e-mail reader both whom the poster is
and the chronological progression. Top posting allows me to read the
response and chronology quickly and easily without having to wade through
previous posts, or even open each post.

Sorry, Sean, but I'm with Charlie on this one, as are many of us. Either
way, this is hardly an important issue, especially in this thread.

Having said that, perhaps we're using different readers. I'm using Outlook
Express. With Outlook Express, top-posting is much easier to follow. Blame
Microsoft, not Charlie.






"Sean" <notsean@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:C08D14CD.EA3F%notsean@xxxxxxxxxx
On 5/14/06 4:58 PM, in article 1K6dnVaGv_TZWfrZRVn-gQ@xxxxxxxxxxx,
"charles
robinson" <robinsonchazz@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I've always seen no reason for peoplw to have to continue reading over
and
over what they have already read once. With my way if you do have the
need
to refrsh yourself you only need to scroll down and check.

People ALWAYS have to scroll down to see who the heck you are responding
to.
Top-posting is just inconsiderate. All you have to do is trim a bit so
people don't have to scroll through the whole thread each time.

At one time there were only Black blues guitarists so no matter who you
copied it ultimately leads back to that place.
You definetely don't want to start hearing about the Black roots of
Bluegrass, that is another argument and this one is getting to be complex
enough.
Charlie

"Sean" <notsean@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:C08CFE68.E98B%notsean@xxxxxxxxxx
On 5/14/06 7:50 AM, in article u9-dnQCCIKo43vrZRVn-pA@xxxxxxxxxxx,
"charles
robinson" <robinsonchazz@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Yet another example of Whites copying aspects of Black culture, you
destroy
your own case.
Charlie

A suggestion: Since English is read from the top of the page to the
bottom
of the page, why not post your remarks after the text that you're
responding
to? If it's too long, just trim it, leaving enough for folks to see what
you're responding to. Just a suggestion.

Now, I take issue with this "Whites copying Blacks" thing. I'm "white"
(although I think I'm closer to "pink"). When I play blues, I am not
copying
black people. I am, to some degree, copying other blues players. At
least,
I'm surely influenced by them. And of course I'm playing a form that can
be
named. It's obvious that it's blues. But when I play it, it's me playing
it.
I'm not pretending to be a member of another culture. The blues have
become
part of my culture.
When I play bluegrass, I'm not copying/pretending to be Appalachian
Scots
Irish. When I play a Bach tune, I'm not copying/pretending to be a
German.
When I play jazz, I AM pretending to be a jazz player, but that is
becoming
less the case as time goes on; still, colour has nothing to do with it.

Anyway, maybe it's because I am not an American that I am mystified and
amazed by the depth and complexity of the racial tensions and scars in
American society. You guys are a family that really has some issues to
work
out. (Yeah, yeah, everyone does, but the dysfunction in the American
national family has a special flavour that has much of the world going
"Hmmmm. What's the deal with that?")

I remember hearing Mose Alison on the radio, talking about his reaction
to
people who say "You play and sing just like a black man." He said
something
like, "Would you tell a black surgeon that he operates just like a white
man?"

At the same time, I am of the school of thought that sees jazz
originating
in Afro-American culture. But it spread out really fast.






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