earworm: music transplants
Recently I’ve heard two American tunes pop up in our Roman Catholic Mass as hymns and hearing these “music transplants” make me smile and warm my musical soul. The Sanctus (Holy, Holy) of our Mass is set to the tune of Go Down Moses. This tickles me to no end because here is an American […]
earworm: manele
Not surprisingly, one of the aspects of Romanian culture I’m most interested in is music. So here is the first post (hopefully of a series) on Romanian genres of music. The first up is manele music. While it is a far cry from Romanian folk, classical, or pop, manele is inescapable in Romania. It blasts […]