The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #123472   Message #2721826
Posted By: Goose Gander
11-Sep-09 - 04:19 PM
Thread Name: The Folk Process
Subject: RE: The Folk Process
"please read my posts,or go somewhere else"

Now, that's a pleasant way to engage in conversation.

I don't see that Little White Bull has been folk-processed. It was in a film, it's a familiar popular song (like Return to Sender) but where is the oral transmission, change over time, etc.?

Again, the idea that commercial products can become folk culture by the process of oral transmission, etc. is NOT a concept that originated with Howard.

Master's of War is popular song written in a folk style. Dylan was at pains to point out that he was not a folksinger, that was a label hung around his neck by people who then accused him of 'betraying' folk when he picked up an electric guitar.