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Thread #44909   Message #662004
Posted By: Jerry Rasmussen
03-Mar-02 - 04:28 PM
Thread Name: What makes folk music American?
Subject: RE: What makes folk music American?
Hi, Sian: Thanks for sharing with everyone what you had written to me. Sorry you're feeling so lousy. I don't know if time waits for no one, but it sure don't wait for me.

As I mentioned, the CD was produced in Bulgaria, and I didn't think it purported to be a definitive overview of American Folk Music. You know those Bulgarians! Fun-loving and Devil-may-care. Even the Anthology Of American Folk Music is not a definitive overview of American Folk Music. That's ever-evolving. When they put rap in there, we'll all cringe, but it came up from the "Folk," so it would be legitimately included. If it were music, that is..

Jerry