ABSTRACT

The Western attraction for traditional music of the world has developed steadily for some time now. The music does, however, better suit events that suggest the context of traditional performances than do many conventional concert rooms. Some genres, namely art genres, ritual genres, folk genres and ethnic genres, owe their survival to their appearance in new venues. The situation is evidently paradoxical, but it captures well the rest of the world's state of economic dependence on countries that have the means to support the luxury of a subsidised culture. During the ritual the public is indeed in constant interaction with the officiants. Within a ritual event lasting normally 24 hours, sampling consisted in extracting a selection that could be narrowed down to a programme of one and a half or two hours. Stage performance in Europe was not a sacred ritual, simply a cultural evocation.