To be fair anybody who comes to me, from anywhere, for some music suggestions, is pretty open to wanting what people here might like rather than a curated experience. I’ve navigated that in places like Spain and Mexico (off the top of my head) where they kind of want to figure out if you are a music person before you are welcome. And I do understand that gate keeping. Cities often prefer tourism to locals and we need to keep our local culture for us. So I’m cool if I get the hairy eye in a dive bar in Oaxaca or Sevilla as long as they are open to some point where I might sing/play and join in. And I might not suggest certain places I like to people who watch movies like Top Gun unironically.
It’s not authenticity, or worse “purity”, it’s live culture rather than spectacle.
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Local culture “for us” is wrong. Have our local culture, vibrant and open, but. It commodified for tourism and unavailable to the people living there.
