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Thread #112851 Message #2398573
Posted By: Suffet
26-Jul-08 - 11:13 PM
Thread Name: What is Folk? Is RAP the NEw Folk?
Subject: RE: What is Folk? Is RAP the NEw Folk?
Greetings:
Hasn't the North American tradition contained many examples of lyrics set to non-melodic music? Among them are: Utah Phillips' long poetic recitation in the middle of Phoebe Snow. The rhythmic doggeral of cowboy poets. The jazz poets from the 1920s through the beatniks of the 1950s to Gil Scott-Heron's The Revolution Will Not Be Televised. The various and sundy talking blues. Peter LaFarge's The Ballad of Ira Hayes. Commercial country novelty songs such as Big Bad John, The Baron, and Convoy, to name just three well known examples. How are these any different from rap?