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Originally Posted by Tokolosh
The point is that there's no reason in pointing the finger at other countries for their flaws, when it's happening in our own back yard, Europe.
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Sure, ok. That's fine. I understand your point. There is a widespread contempt for Americans that amounts to a hollow trend in a lot of cases. I maintain that a resistance to what I (probably blithely and irrationally) see as American cultural imposition. And of course Europe, particularly Britain, is no better. I want to know why, with very few exceptions, I rarely hear music in anything other than my own language, and rarely in anything other than Anglo-American idioms. I don't think rock and its bastard offspring(s) is exclusively Anglo-American, and I love how you get mutations of said - I'm thinking Senegalese/ French hip-hop or even the more Germanic interpretations (Krautrock or the industrial movement). What concerns me, and fires my ire, is that it is a lot easier to hear a mediocre, watered down version of bad British or American music than it is to hear a good>great band from Elsewhere. My argument is probably something akin to a Hegelian other, an Adornian anxiety, a post-Marxist vulgar capitalism but whatever, I do fear the acceptance that Europe and elsewhere has for American models which are suited best to Americans. That Europe, Africa and Asia has a voice is necessary, and that we hear more of this voice is utterly paramount.