...which is probably as good an excuse as I could have to make Africa be our next musical destination. There are certainly identifiable elements and parallels that make sense to the ears, though the hunt for THE origin of this or any other musical form is sort of a mug's game: the answers generally take the form of interwoven strands of influence, leavened with leaps of faith/assertion, and it's sort of like genealogy: people perpetuate stories that please them, whatever the real realities might have been. Perhaps the real answer is that it's the STORIES that are the most fun.
Posted by blackmer at January 27, 2005 06:31 PM