"We're all folk. It's all music. All music is therefore folk music"

*sigh* Whether meant jokingly or seriously, that sort of convoluted logic is all too common. It pretends to simplify and muddles the issue.

...and ummmm..Alec, "Originally Rock 'n' Roll was a blend of Country music & R 'n' B
both of which were local variants of Folk music.
Ergo Rock 'n' Roll is a logical entailment of the Folk process Q.E.D."

BOTH premises there are somewhere between misleading and totally inaccurate...which renders the conclusion useless. There are both factual and rhetorical problems with it. I hope you were just making a joke? Please tell me, so I can laugh hollowly....


You might as well just say that "all music comes from some earlier music" which is true, but useless if you want to discuss some particular style. There ARE differences.....various of us LIKE different styles, therefore we need ways to refer to them. Finding ways to claim they are all related, just so you don't have to feel obligated to limit your discussions just ain't reasonable.
   Using that logic, you can go to a Bluegrass forum and make a case for discussing Grand Opera.....but you can imagine the reception you'd get.

(I know that Max makes no real attempt to limit the topics here, and I know that MY blather is just "blowing in the wind" and is not likely to change much when people are determined to ignore the obvious history and relevance of Mudcat as a **FOLK* (in the narrower sense) forum. I can't stop it, but I can insert these little remarks every year or so, just for the record...)

so...carry on....don't mind me.








*little beady eyes watching* :^(