And there's one more thing to be considered: in order to justify doing something that is considered by some as undesirable foreign influence, pop musicians doing what American audiences call "world music" tend to fabricate a "natural evolutionary line" which is only a rhetorical device to mask what is exportable music made for exporting purposes only.
Carmen Miranda was maybe the first example of that. You can travel all around Brazil and you'll never see a woman wearing a tropical fruit headgear. If you do, that'll no doubt be a travesti who has Miranda as a diva.
Caio
> But what is Western pop music but the evolution of traditional folk music? >
caio,
it was a relative comparison.
mike
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