Freitag, 26. Mai 2006
Is ‘world music’ the ‘classic music’ of our time?
Jan Ling (2003, Schweden)
Christine Maßheimer (Flensburg) brachte mich kürzlich auf die Idee, mich mal mit Jan Ling (Schweden) zu beschäftigen, der sich wissenschaftlich zum Thema „Folkmusik“ äussere. Mein erster Blick ins Internet liess mich auf folgenden Artikel stossen, dessen Klarheit und Schärfe mich verblüfft. Ohngeachtet irgendwelcher Copyright – Verletzungs- Gefahren (“hope, that’s ok Mr. Ling?”) möchte ich den TÖNCHEN!-LeserInnen hier den Anfang zugänglich machen, weil mir diese Inhalte zur Zeit sehr wichtig sind und Jan Ling unbedingt bemerkt werden muss. Die komplette Seite mögen sich Interessierte dann bitte selbst aus dem Netz fischen.
Im Folgenden nun Jan Ling (Scanned in from Popular Music, vol. 22/2 (May 2003), pp. 235-240. ):
On the way to my library there is a little shop named ‘World Music. The Oasis of Music from Asia, Africa’. One morning I stopped my bike and went in just curious to see what world music could be in my little town. In the racks even the smallest country from Asia or Africa was represented with one or two CDs, most of them produced in Paris or London. The other customers were half my age (around thirty to thirty-five, nobody over fifty or under twenty). The owner, an immigrant who has lived in Sweden for more than ten years, had this to say:
The youngsters do not come here, all my customers are between twenty-five and forty. There is a growing interest in world music: people with money are visiting foreign countries as tourists and when they come home they come to me, asking for artists or groups they have heard. Most of them have an academic background and speak English fluently.
Much of the shop owner’s talk reminded me of what I was studying at the library: how English, French, German, Russian and Swedish noblemen in the eighteenth century visited Italy on their Grand Tour and brought music home from the southern parts of Europe. If you look around the Globe today, the percentage of human beings who have the economic resources to make tourist trips or buy new records is more or less equivalent to the percentage of noblemen in the eighteenth century relative to their farming and working countrymen. This inspired me to think further about the parallels between the two musical labels: ‘classic music’ and ‘world music’.
Wer jetzt weiterlesen möchte:
http://www.tagg.org/others/lingworld.html
Viel Spass! Über Jan Ling wird demnächst im TÖNCHEN! noch mehr zu lesen sein.
An Christine Maßheimer ein herzliches Dankeschön für den Tip!