The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #119547 Message #2595316
Posted By: WFDU - Ron Olesko
23-Mar-09 - 10:37 AM
Thread Name: 1954 and All That - defining folk music
Subject: RE: 1954 and All That - defining folk music
"Jim and Pat were both listening to jazz and blues at the time but, when they heard Ewan MacColl singing industrial ballads about British working people's lives and emotions they were completely bowled over."
If someone writes a song in 2009 about the lives of British working people, should we ignore it because it is not a folk song?