The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #112597 Message #2394870
Posted By: glueman
22-Jul-08 - 05:39 AM
Thread Name: Does it matter what music is called?
Subject: RE: Does it matter what music is called?
In its application and consumption folk music has become a 'sound'. In practice that's what folk now is. If a musician or singer performed folk that ticked all the boxes except audience expectation of a certain noise most of them would run a mile. There's a lot of denial on the matter but that reality it puts a lid on what folk might really be so it becomes self-fulfilling.