The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #36303   Message #500349
Posted By: Bill D
06-Jul-01 - 10:41 PM
Thread Name: A Real Folksinger
Subject: RE: A Real Folksinger
hmmmmm......interesting....but the one part really creates a problem

" A real folksinger understands that folk music is not a genre. A real folksinger understands that any song can be a folksong. A real folksonger knows there is no such thing as singing a folksong wrong. If a real folksinger forgets the words, he/she makes up new ones on the spot. If a real folksinger can't quite remember the melody, he/she invents one that fits his/her own vocal style, perhaps flatting a 7th here, jumping an octave there, or changing a major key into a mountain modal."

it seems to allow anything anyone wants to be 'folk'...in which case, why use the word?...just 'music' would do.