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Thread #99963 Message #2001969
Posted By: Tootler
20-Mar-07 - 08:46 AM
Thread Name: It isn't 'Folk', but what is it we do?
Subject: RE: It isn't 'Folk', but what is it we do?
Richard Bridge wrote;
The problem with the "horse" approach to the term (which is what most of the recent posters to this thread are adopting with varying degrees of elegance) is that there is then no term left to distinguish the materials that genuinely were transmitted and modified by the oral tradition
No Richard. What people are suggesting is that the term "folk music" is broader than just the traditional canon. And, for the traditional canon, what is wrong with simply calling it ... er - "traditional"