Tuesday 17 January 2012
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Music and Cities
Mark Twain once famously wrote that "A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes". An astute observation of how people can interact. Actually false, metaphorically true. Similarly, you can ‘actually’ travel around the world in another way without putting your shoes on - through music and song. Whilst this is often the consequence of mood (of the music, or of you whilst listening), or of memory (how many of us have holiday songs that remind us of a particular vacation?), or indeed of instruments used (the Steel Drum brings you instantly to the West Indies, the Kora to West Africa), sometimes the globetrotting is as literal as the title of the song itself. Here as an example of what I mean...
Jewel - Barcelona
Kaki King - Montreal
Jeff Buckley - Vancouver
Blonde Redhead - Oslo
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