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non12 rock?

🔗Jim Flannery <newgrange@...>

3/13/1998 1:56:50 PM
Somebody on another mailing list wrote:

> In other words I'm less interested in hearing
> someone make odd-sounding runs on a microtonal
> guitar than I am in hearing someone attempt to
> forge a whole new tradition of songcraft within
> a microtonal framework. I'm genuinely curious
> to hear if anyone's ever succeeded in creating,
> for example, a compelling microtonal pop song.
> It strikes me that certain ideas of pop could
> easily transcend specific scales.

Aside from jazz- and blues- oriented stuff, I'm having
trouble answering this question ... can anybody offhand list
some people doing detwelvulated *pop music* ... i.e. "songs"
in some kind of (fairly extended into folk- and
psychedelic-, knowing the guy who's asking the question)
"rock context"?

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