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Thread #155357 Message #3659284
Posted By: Lighter
11-Sep-14 - 08:22 AM
Thread Name: What makes a new song a folk song?
Subject: RE: What makes a new song a folk song?
> this sort of folk is perhaps a lot closer to its roots in the American tradition than it is to our own
Only insofar as it was influenced by the blues (most of which, by the '54 def, is not "folk") and Woody Guthrie (ditto).