Heavy WeatherHeavy Weather for Patriotism
4th of July, 2006 Austin, Texas
We gather in the big park waiting for the evening concert and fireworks. I have an uncontrollable feeling of deja vu. Some semi-familiar music is playing: American songs, kind of patriotic, kind of rock, kind of spiritual... those same songs that we in Europe, out of context, associate with an American dream.
Here on the ground, Texan families, mostly poor people, gather under the menacing clouds, with food, drinks and flags. Less than a month ago I saw a turbo-folk crowd in Belgrade: and I know that Ceca' s music, for those who don’t understand her, may sound exotic. It's no more exotic than this Texan country music. These Texans don’t raise three fingers in nationalist Serb gestures, but they have have red-white-and-blue flags on their heads, clothes and babies. One middle-aged cowboy reprimands us for touching "his" pigeons in the public park. He has a small flag sticking from of his back pocket of his pants. The American flag dangles like a straw tail, in grave danger of catching fire.
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