The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #119547 Message #2597832
Posted By: greg stephens
26-Mar-09 - 12:24 PM
Thread Name: 1954 and All That - defining folk music
Subject: RE: 1954 and All That - defining folk music
Sinister Supporter: you can, of course, call anything you like folk music, and noone can stop you. And you can see a black and white striped horselike creature walking down the road, and call it a giraffe. Maybe it is, to you. Good luck. But I shall carry on calling it a zebra, because I find it convenient to do so. I have listened to the music you have posted as "folk" or "feral folk". Well, you call it folk. I don't. I can define what I call folk in terms of observable characteristics. Could you list the characteristics by which your posted music is defined as "folk"? Or, indeeed, "feral folk"?