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Thread #155357   Message #3655318
Posted By: Jim Carroll
30-Aug-14 - 03:15 PM
Thread Name: What makes a new song a folk song?
Subject: RE: What makes a new song a folk song?
"published in 1860"
Wannabes have been with us for a long time then?
The word 'folklore' was said to have first put in an appearance some fourteen years before that in 1846 in a letter to The Atheneum written by William Thom, but of course, everybody already knows that.   
Jim Carroll