The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #98943   Message #1967101
Posted By: GUEST,Shimrod
14-Feb-07 - 04:58 AM
Thread Name: Folk Music should be fun
Subject: RE: Folk Music should be fun
There has always been an 'anti-intellectual primitivist' tendency within the post-war folk revival. These people seem to believe that everything should be instinctive and that a singer/musician should think as little as possible about what he/she is doing. They also tend towards the view that 'anything goes in a folk club'. They don't believe in 'definitions' but they do tend to bandy about such words as 'entertainment' and (dare I say it?) 'fun' as though these are absolutes that do not need defining (a moment's thought would convince anyone - except a wilfull non-thinker - that this contention is absurd!). To me, these people are 'no fun' and I sometimes wish that they would go away and form their own movement (which would probably involve rather a lot of rock music).