On 3/16/2011 7:44 PM, Edward Dolan wrote:
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I don't understand yodeling. It reminds me of that unwatchable and
weird cartoon that played when i was a child "Heide". I grew up in
Buenos Aires. Germanic European folk culture was probably something as
alien to me as when the Europeans arrived in Africa, America or East
Asia.

I thought there was a substantial population of people of German descent
in Argentina?

There is nothing difficult to understand about yodeling at all. It is simple
music, merely a style of vocalizing not all that different than Sherman's
Handelian operatic arias. German folk culture is the best in the world. If
it is alien to you, then that is because you are the alien. Is not Argentina
mainly of European descendants?

Beethoven called Handel "the master of us all" for his vocal
compositions. Does Ed Dolan consider himself to have superior musical
judgment to Beethoven?

When I went to Northern Germany in the 80s and saw men wearing green
knickers, long socks and leprechaun looking shoes I thought that I was
in some episode of star trek, or, the very famous bar scene in star
wars. Melanie could have been singing in the star wars bar scene and
the alien effect would have been the same.

All kinds of folk culture simply go back a few hundred years. I am convinced
that those who are unable to appreciate folk music are also incapable of
appreciating fine art music. In fact, very many composers extensively used
folk music in their compositions.

Folk music can be quite good, with proper filtering to remove the dross.
Some contemporary compositions are very good too:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rdqQxlx9hI [1].

[1] Historically correct, for the most part.

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