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Thread #2224 Message #429059
Posted By: GUEST,Roger the skiffler
30-Mar-01 - 05:00 AM
Thread Name: What is a Folk Song?
Subject: RE: What is a Folk Song?
Yet another of the things I know nothing about, but given that someone must have been the original singer-songwriter of every old song, how many generations must pass before it becomes a folk song? The Year 1300 :"That Ossian/Blondel- he's just a singer-songwriter". The year 2150: " the Alpha Centauri Jug band bring you traditional earth folksongs. This one is collected from Rick Fielding, the bard of Toronto, coming up a number from the pen of Matt R..." RtS (ignorance is bliss)