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Donald Clarke <[log in to unmask]>:
>Nothing is wrong with 'crossover' or 'fusion'. But nowadays 'crossover'
>is a marketing term: few of us on this list will be interested in a Welsh
>schoolgirl or Lloyd Webber's ex-wife singing whatever some producer
>thought might make the Billboard chart. And the trouble with fusions
>in music is that they can't be forced, like hothouse flowers. Jazz
>itself was a fusion from the beginning; so was rock'n'roll; but these
>happened naturally, while progressive rock, jazz rock, jazz fusion etc
>were all attempts to force hybrids. It never works, and certainly won't
>work in 'classical' music.
I see the point you are trying to arrive at- but would it really hold
water as you state it? Doesn't the whole "nationalist agenda" of various
19th century nationalisms have a "forced" quality to it?
iskender
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