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Thread #155357   Message #3667046
Posted By: MGM·Lion
08-Oct-14 - 01:10 AM
Thread Name: What makes a new song a folk song?
Subject: RE: What makes a new song a folk song?
It's your word 'vision' that's noteworthy there, Al. You look at, say, one of your own songs, or one of Joni Mitchell's or whoever, and think you see a folksong. But you don't.

I could be down on my uppers & cheer myself up by saying that when I look at the piece of stale cheese which is all I've got, I'm looking at a nice plateful of tripes à la mode de Caen or roast turkey. But that won't make 'em so. And a chef or restaurant owner who put roast turkey on his menu and then served mouldy cheese, on the plea that that was his 'vision' of it, would not last long, and probably get into all sorts of trouble. 'Vision' isn't necessarily reliable as a taxonomic method. Accurate categorisation is.

So, once again, why have you insisted on this attempted takeover of an inapplicable term, and then gone on as if it's the correct categorisation. That's as mistaken, or as fraudulent, as my putative restaurateur above?

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