OT: Italy to fingerprint gypsies

richdaigle

If you're a fan or player of Gypsy Jazz, you are in debt to the Roma culture...period. The best thing you can do is got to www.voiceofroma.com and donate.
Latcho Drom
Rich

PayneJon

richdaigle wrote:

If you're a fan or player of Gypsy Jazz, you are in debt to the Roma culture...period. The best thing you can do is got to www.voiceofroma.com and donate.
Latcho Drom
Rich

Quite true, quite true. I'm doing just that.
It seems to me that the music of Django Reinhardt was and should be a symbol of protest against fascism. After all, one reads on the last pages of Michael Dregni's book on Django that it was the Gadji who helped in keeping the head of Gypsy Jazz music above water back in the seventies.
It is as though we have made an investment and now must face responsibilities to that investment.
Perhaps we should turn towards other brands of guitar strings such as Argentine, John Pearse, Newtone, etc. and buy those instead of Galli and D'Addario?

vilgo2003

let's stop eating pizza too ,that will help just as much .
pascal


Perhaps we should turn towards other brands of guitar strings such as Argentine, John Pearse, Newtone, etc. and buy those instead of Galli and D'Addario?

PayneJon

vilgo2003 wrote:

let's stop eating pizza too ,that will help just as much .
pascal


Perhaps we should turn towards other brands of guitar strings such as Argentine, John Pearse, Newtone, etc. and buy those instead of Galli and D'Addario?

There are no brands of Pizza with Django's face plastered on the package that I know of.

Klezmorim

PayneJon wrote:

There are no brands of Pizza with Django's face plastered on the package that I know of.

I think the "pizza" comment was perhaps a snarky response to the suggestion that we stop buying certain brands of guitar strings because they have a perceived Italian connection. I *do* hope that the original post was a joke.

BTW: A pizza-moratorium would hurt more Americans than Italians. Also, D'Addario strings have been "Made in The U.S.A." for almost 100 years.

The only way the Italian government will change its policies toward the Romany is if there is a huge public outcry from the Italian people or the outside world. And, my friends, I don't see that happening. The recent news story of the two Rom girls who drowned while onlookers continued to sunbathe is sad confirmation of this. (http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/07/21/italy.drowning/index.html) There was "outrage" for what... perhaps a day or two? Then it was back to "business as usual."

PayneJon

Klezmorim wrote:

PayneJon wrote:

There are no brands of Pizza with Django's face plastered on the package that I know of.

I think the "pizza" comment was perhaps a snarky response to the suggestion that we stop buying certain brands of guitar strings because they have a perceived Italian connection. I *do* hope that the original post was a joke.

BTW: A pizza-moratorium would hurt more Americans than Italians. Also, D'Addario strings have been "Made in The U.S.A." for almost 100 years.

The only way the Italian government will change its policies toward the Romany is if there is a huge public outcry from the Italian people or the outside world. And, my friends, I don't see that happening. The recent news story of the two Rom girls who drowned while onlookers continued to sunbathe is sad confirmation of this. (http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/07/21/italy.drowning/index.html) There was "outrage" for what... perhaps a day or two? Then it was back to "business as usual."

Made in the U.S.A. for almost 100 years? Then we have twice the reason not to buy D'Addario. And what I hope is a joke is that Fascism and mistreatment of the Gypsies is on the rise in Italy.

emicad

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