[78-L] Very western sounding Japanese dance band

[simmonssomer]

Speaking of ethoncentricity...take a look at the Japanese culture or that of 
China.
The US and Western Europe are amateurs at that game compared to these two 
xenophobic giants.

Al Simmons

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kristjan Saag" <saag at telia.com>
To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
Sent: Sunday, March 18, 2012 2:46 PM
Subject: Re: [78-L] Very western sounding Japanese dance band


> The concept "non-US and non-Western Europeanrecordings" itself is a
> misconception.
> The World outside the US and Western Europe doesn't consider itself
> "non-US" or "non-Western European." It sees itself as India or Egypt or
> Korea or whatever. Each of these countries could well produce a
> compilation of their own jazz or dance recordings, but hardly anyone
> would be interested in co-producing a "non-US" jazz or dance music
> compilation.
>
> After all, it didn't take more than two-three years after The Original
> Dixieland Jazz Band made their first recordings before young musicians
> in Europe and elsewhere started to play "jazz", or what they thought was
> jazz. Hell, even Art Hickman and Jack Hylton thought they played jazz!
> Who knew for sure? All around the world young musicians were trying out
> the new music, and if it wasn't jazz it was ragtime, Hawaiian music,
> tango and even operetta - there are Japanese recordings of famous German
> operetta tunes from the 1920's!
> Certainly everyone kept an eye on what was happening in the US as far as
> jazz goes, but local traditions set their marks on popular music, and
> nobody was thinking: "wow, we're producing non-US jazz" or "non
> Western-European tango". (Tango, by the way,  was huge in Russia, it was
> played and recorded in Turkey etc.) They were making contemporary music,
> that's all.
> So, don't look for "non-this-or-that"-compilations, look for Chinese,
> Turkish, Japanese, Indian compilations, perhaps an Asian one, perhaps an
> African one - it's also good for combating ones ethnocentric
> perspectives which, I'm sorry to say, are all too common in Western
> Europe and, in particular, in the United States.
> Kristjan
>
>
>
> On 2012-03-18 17:42, Julian Vein wrote:
>> On 18/03/12 13:40, Benno H?upl wrote:
>>>
>>> Is there a re-issue CD somewhere with a collection of the best dance
>>> band recordings from non-US and non-Western European countries?
>>> If not, it's about time somebody took care of this. I could supply a few
>>> outstanding tracks.
>>>
>>> Benno
>>> .
>>> _______________________________________________
>>>
>> Harlequin put out a series of such reissues on LP years ago, but I don't
>> think many were transferred to CD, apart from Charlie And His Orchestra.
>>
>>        Julian Vein
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