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Thread #146595   Message #3752814
Posted By: GUEST
23-Nov-15 - 03:13 AM
Thread Name: Can a pop song become traditional?
Subject: RE: Can a pop song become traditional?
Anyone else here read Viz?

Which of our lot reminds you most of Major Misunderstanding?

Lots of pop songs fit any description of folk. Quite a few hitherto described as folk songs have become pop songs. A couple of rocket scientists on here give a definition of folk that precludes anything Ewan MacColl wrote but get hot under the collar if you point out that they call his work folk. In the same breath, they dismiss songs written about similar subjects as not folk. It must be something in Irish water that doesn't agree with British guts.

It's the subtext under that obvious statement and old men getting precious over their experience that forms this particular debate.