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Music for the masses.(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)

Publication: Quadrant
Publication Date: 01-MAR-05
Format: Online - approximately 654 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

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SIR: B.J. Coman's piece on "doof doof music" (January-February 2005) is a very strange piece of elitist, anti-democratic prejudice.

Years ago I did ethnomusicological research on a Melanesian tribe in Santo, in the former New Hebrides, and recorded music where the performers used fat that...

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...two-metre-long bamboo pipes they hit on the ground in unison from sunset to sunrise for three whole nights. It was the ultimate "doof doof' music, let me tell you. But describing it as such tells us nothing about the meaning, importance, complex subtlety and significance of the music to those who performed...

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