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Thread #141147   Message #3250710
Posted By: Big Al Whittle
05-Nov-11 - 07:23 AM
Thread Name: 'Occupy English Folk Music!'
Subject: RE: 'Occupy English Folk Music!'
If only you could see D the G - I'm not saying anything bad about traditional music or musicians. On the contrary many are my good friends, I attend their clubs their estivalss. I enjoy their music, and their company.

What I said was:-

In short, whatever your committe said in 1954, the meaning of the term 'folk music', in common English usage, changed in the 1960's.

And to clarify that - it changed in common usage from being a type of music to an artistic movement - like the Impressionists, or the Pre raphaelites.