The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #119547   Message #2593768
Posted By: Don Firth
20-Mar-09 - 09:54 PM
Thread Name: 1954 and All That - defining folk music
Subject: RE: 1954 and All That - defining folk music
If I were to come to a folk club (presumably a "designated folk context") and sing "La Donna e Mobilé" from Giuseppe Verdi's Rigoletto, even if I accompanied it on my guitar, or sang it unaccompanied with my hand cupped over my ear, I don't think very many people would nod vigorously if I proclaimed it to be a folk song.

Don Firth