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martle
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« Reply #165 on: 08:58:03, 28-03-2008 »
I'm afraid not, GG. But it's wonderful what various combinations of words like 'amazon' and pygmy' will elicit from Mr Google.
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« Reply #166 on: 14:40:25, 28-03-2008 »
Quote from: martle on 08:58:03, 28-03-2008

György Ligeti was not the only composer to be influence by the music of the Pygmy tribes.

Here is Hugh Wood on a fieldwork expedition to a Central African village.
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« Reply #167 on: 20:02:14, 28-03-2008 »
is pygmy an acceptable term?
help!
i always have used 'aka people' not 'aka pygmies' but then again i find alan merriam's use of the word 'negro' rather discomforting
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« Reply #168 on: 20:06:46, 28-03-2008 »
I never feel entirely comfortable when using it, but it's on the cover of that Ligeti/Aka CD, and it's in most writings on Ligeti, so it's a bit hard to avoid, and until someone tells me it's definitively unacceptable I think I'll assume the uncomfortable-feeling part of me is being hypersensitive.

I think you mean 'discomfiting', by the way. But then I think I meant 'influenced'. Pleased to see you've got your grammatical powers back, even if you're not quite up to capital letters yet. Wink
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« Reply #169 on: 23:44:10, 28-03-2008 »
"I'm quite happy with being a pygmy shrew"
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« Reply #170 on: 23:56:06, 28-03-2008 »
As far as I can gather from Mr Wikipedia, the term 'pygmy' has been rejected by a number of tribal peoples who have been historically described as such (the Baka and Twa peoples for example) and while I can't find any evidence that the Aka mind whether or not they're called 'pygmies', I think I'm going to carry on referring to them as the Aka people.
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