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Thread #119547 Message #2597920
Posted By: Goose Gander
26-Mar-09 - 01:57 PM
Thread Name: 1954 and All That - defining folk music
Subject: RE: 1954 and All That - defining folk music
"Yeah but, if a Folk Singer sings a pop song in a Folk Club . . . then that becomes uniquely folk according the idiosyncratic characteristics of the singer."
And if I'm a cabinet maker and I build a table, then that table becomes uniquely a cabinet according to the idiosyncratic characteristics of the cabinet maker(?)
A definition that can encompass just about anything is just about worthless.