The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #119547   Message #2603342
Posted By: Jack Blandiver
02-Apr-09 - 02:59 PM
Thread Name: 1954 and All That - defining folk music
Subject: RE: 1954 and All That - defining folk music
The species we refer to as "elephants" are a corporeal genre. I don't see how the word "corporeal" relates to music of any genre. The idea of "genre" itself is an abstraction.

I use corporeal in terms of empirical actuality; corporeal as oppose to conceptual, or even yet abstract. I don't suppose you've read Harry Partch or even listened to his music. Corporeal is a word he uses a lot to underline this vividness of musical experience; a vividness I regard as being integral to the experience of Folk Music. You know, the material physicality of sound which resonates in the physical material air, from one physical material body to another.