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Thread #119547 Message #2596808
Posted By: GUEST,John from Kemsing
25-Mar-09 - 07:11 AM
Thread Name: 1954 and All That - defining folk music
Subject: RE: 1954 and All That - defining folk music
John P, Joni Mitchell wrote and sang "Big Yellow Taxi", a song concerned with environmental issues, relevant to many people at that time. Later Martin Carthy sang a song concerned with the Falklands war, also an issue relevant to many people at that time. There are songs being written and sung concerning contemporary issues, by numerous people , all the time. Surely, in those instances, do they not all come under the same "genre"?