The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #119547 Message #2599981
Posted By: GUEST,glueman
29-Mar-09 - 03:53 PM
Thread Name: 1954 and All That - defining folk music
Subject: RE: 1954 and All That - defining folk music
You might need more compelling logic than an indefinable something before anyone gets to ringfence music definitions for the rest of us. My background is not a folk club so bad authentic singers and competent inauthentic ones go right over my head.
I buy traditional music I like, consume, purchase in the market place, attend festivals if there's someone I especially want to hear but as far from a back room creation of the good old days as it's possible to imagine. Where do we devourers of songs go when the clubs don't serve our requirements for folk?