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Holy crap! Zoocore would be a great name for a band.

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That's quite a link Mossy..(quite a link you got there big boy...)

It goes through a fascinating history of music for a number of years, but this nugget was toward the beginning:

"The term became current in the 1980s as a marketing/classificatory device in the media and the music industry, and it is generally used to classify any kind of "foreign" (i.e. non-Western) music."

Lazy, I say.....:grump:

"Zoocore" is a great name under one condition...you have to pronounce it

Zoh oh karet :-V :LOL:

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I suggested Rick start a thread because I thought World Music is an interesting name for a "genre", and less descriptive/meaningful then most. I also thought it would start a good discussion, and in that regard I'm patting myself on the back.

Krautrock is a descriptive term,and really doesn't imply Germany. There are German bands that are NOT Krautrock, and non-German bands that do play Krautrock.

I know we can argue eternally about what is and isn't a specific genre, or what to label something. But world music to me is a stupid name, and I'm not worried about being an ugly American. There is no comparison musically between Celtic music (which does have a "sound"), the Senegalese musicians Gabriel played with, Scandanavian folk, and Salsa, all of which is likely to be called "world" music. It's a stupid term. That's all. No political agenda, no concern about being PC.

:deadhorse

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That's a very good point...i think "lazy" and stupid, too...

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Man, Rick...when's the last time you were accused of being PC? LOL!!

I agree that "World" is just another classifcation, one that i'd rather the
rekkid stores made than myself. I've scored in "world" several times,
and here I am, such a Norwegian white boy that I almost qualify
as "clear" rather than white. So...America isn't part of the world?
World= "anything not by white Americans"? Even Native American
music is lumped into the category.

I consider Clannad (Enya's family, BTW) as maybe...Pop/Irish,
although when Enya (and her sister Maire) do it, it's "new age"

If I may be so bold as to ask my fellow Moonfolk's endulgence~
Please cast your ears to a merging of the Prog/World genres,
my latest tune "Mamaya". www.songplanet.com/zenpool

It's a feelgood, latin(ish) solo piece w/ me on all instruments,
chapman stick (my first!), flute, ac. guitar.
World, but w/ the tools o' the prog trade.

C. "Poppa Doc" Kirkendall

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Great tune! You gave no vocal credit, are they real vocals or manufactured? Love the acoustic...

but you used "World" in your description:rofl:

After the song played, Aural moon came on! (Salem Hill's Stolen by Ghosts)...is that an intentional link?

Finally, is that picture of you or Todd Rundgren? :thumbsup:

Poppa Doc :)

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Hey Rick-
Thanks! We went off the air before I had a chance to reply.

Real, manufactured...the line blurs. It started w/ a human voice,
I took it from there.

That's the 1st time that photo invoked Todd!
One Yesfan said I look like "the lost love child of Wakeman and Bowie" LOL!!
I was in one of my rare short hair phases, so I thought I should do
a publicity photo.
Glad you liked the tune, and I appreciate the support.

K