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Originally Posted by william z
Well, you may be confused because you seem to think I am American. I am not, but does not American culture have great infuence in the world, more so than the culture of any other country? I doubt if very many people in much of the world ever ever heard of the Svenska Akadamien. Probably you look at things from very much of a Swedish perspective.
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I'm from New Zealand actually, I rather think my perspective is more "Oh my gosh, there are a bunch of
other perspectives out there that aren't exactly the same as the ones I was raised in, and boy are some of them weird and hard to understand - but that doesn't make them wrong."
But Canadian is American, no? (But I can admit I thought you were from the US, my bad
It doesn't matter who's heard of the Svenska Akadamien: They are the people who have awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature every year there has been one, and they really have the only opinion that matters on the issue.
If they make a habit of giving it to people who the majority of the world feel don't deserve it, then the majority of the world will simply deem the Nobel irrelevant and ignore it I guess.
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Originally Posted by william z
So Chinese opera is popular in China so somehow that makes it literature?
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That would be a ridiculously silly statement, which is likely why it's got absolutely nothing to do with what I said. What I did say, was that Chinese Opera is considered part of the spectrum of dramatic poetry. How popular it is, or is not, and where, was your topic. I was simply pointing out that poetic forms as performance art involving music is far a fairly widespread tradition. Widespread, not popular. For that matter, "literature" isn't as popular as the latest Hollywood Blockbuster either, so once again I'm confused what your argument is.
How many people go to see something performed has little to do with what the something
is. Relatively few people go to see opera or independent theatre, but most people can still identify them as music and drama respectively.
In any case, Dylan has finally broken his silence and will probably be in Stockholm in November, accepting that irrelevant award from those dudes (and dudettes) you've never heard of. So we can go on arguing this until the tenth of never and it won't change a darn thing.