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Thread #155357 Message #3664317
Posted By: Musket
28-Sep-14 - 05:21 PM
Thread Name: What makes a new song a folk song?
Subject: RE: What makes a new song a folk song?
Michael. What's all that bollocks about moral superiority?
Folk is a broad church. It has many facets. It includes but is by no means limited to the pompous pronounciations of what people thought sixty years ago, but includes everything since. Jim might be a 1954 reenactment society but that's no reason to take him seriously.
Folk is the music of the people? Yeah Right. Most "working" people in The UK wouldn't and don't relate to yokels rattling on about maypoles and cockades. The Imagined Village is all about seeing that.