- Sat Jan 02, 2010 7:06 pm
#9418
The fact that women haven't been playing or haven't developed the same skills as their male counterparts was previously blamed on men, they were shutting them out (I'm not gonna look through the string). So what if they were. We talk about cultural respect, as long as it fits into our scheme of the world. As soon as it doesn't we blame people for this and that. The women in West Africa have accepted the results of their choices and if they choose to act differently now that is their choice and they are free to do that. But we don't need to tear down men in the process saying that they have somehow been victimizing the women and not allowing them to play. None of us knows with any type of certainty whether or not any women were asking to play back in the day. Every drummer I'ver ever met, old or young, views the djembe as just a drum that anyone can play. I've never seen anyone actually object to foreigners or women playing. So why does everyone just assume they were different before?
Interesting discussion but don't throw some type of victimized or romanticized view of different cultures into the mix.
Interesting discussion but don't throw some type of victimized or romanticized view of different cultures into the mix.