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Thread #155357 Message #3655314
Posted By: Steve Gardham
30-Aug-14 - 03:04 PM
Thread Name: What makes a new song a folk song?
Subject: RE: What makes a new song a folk song?
Somebody mentioned the first use of the words 'folk song'. I know this has been posted before but a volume of poetry was published in 1860 with that very title. All of the pieces in the book were written for the book by the author. None of them ever became folk songs under any description of the words. (Just for fun. Not trying to make a point.)