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Thread #99843 Message #1995713
Posted By: GUEST,M.Ted
13-Mar-07 - 04:03 PM
Thread Name: What IS Folk Music?
Subject: RE: What IS Folk Music?
I generally agree with Frank--my addition is that there are a lot of living music traditions that many people who consider themselves experts on folk music know nothing about. Also, I think that American Jazz is a folk /raditional music form, and that it is the driving force behind 'American" music of all kinds.
Also, a lot of music is defined by it's association with a specific place, time, and subculture--like garage music, but we don't really have a term to distinguish those sorts of music from folk and traditional music--