What is the future of folk music?

Subject: RE: What is the future of folk music?
From: theleveller
Date: 31 Mar 10 - 06:18 AM

I just came across this quotation: "A civilization flourishes when people plant trees under which they will never sit."

I think I'd add: "A civilization flourishes when people write songs that others will sing."

Subject: RE: What is the future of folk music?
From: The Sandman
Date: 31 Mar 10 - 06:33 AM

But for folk music to flourish those songs have to be able to be performed without expensive equipment,the unaccompanied voice is an instrument that is available to everyone regardless of income.
if a song can work when sung unaccompanied,it becomes a folk song,it is available then to everyone regardless of wealth or income

Subject: RE: What is the future of folk music?
From: TheSnail
Date: 31 Mar 10 - 07:01 AM

Progress is a terrible thing!

We wuz 'appy 'coz we 'ad a sense of community and made our own entertainment.

Subject: RE: What is the future of folk music?
From: theleveller
Date: 31 Mar 10 - 07:12 AM

That was the great thing about cholera - it was something everyone could share.

Subject: RE: What is the future of folk music?
From: Jim Carroll
Date: 31 Mar 10 - 09:04 AM

"We wuz 'appy 'coz we 'ad a sense of community and made our own entertainment."
Sorry Bryan - don't get your point.
These songs are important because they express all aspects of human experience from the ground up - the good old days of evictions, tranportation, enclosures, press gangs, witchcraft trials, international and civil wars, strikes, shitty jobs like whaling, millwork, mining.... they're all there in the songs, which function far beyond entertainment.
There's an element of nostalgia in all of us; "It never rained when I was young" is as much a part of us as are the days we remember it pissing down.
It is the fact that these songs reflect life from a grass roots point of view that make them so important; it also makes the term 'folk' important as a reminder of where they came from and who made and passed them on.
Jim Carroll

Subject: RE: What is the future of folk music?
From: TheSnail
Date: 31 Mar 10 - 09:14 AM

Sorry Jim - you seem to have got my point exactly.

Subject: RE: What is the future of folk music?
From: The Sandman
Date: 31 Mar 10 - 10:11 AM

Cholera (gr: Bile vomiting and diarrhea) is a severe bacterial infection caused by the bacterium Vibrio cholerae, which primarily affects the small intestine. Transmission is primarily by the acquisition of the pathogen through contaminated drinking water or infected food. The bacteria can cause extreme diarrhea and severe vomiting, which can lead to rapid dehydration (hypohydration) and electrolyte loss. Although most infections are asymptomatic () about 85% whereas the mortality rate at the outbreak of the disease untreated, 20 to 70%.
yes. but the rich Were likely to be affected less,as they could afford to pay for better hygiene.

Subject: RE: What is the future of folk music?
From: Jim Carroll
Date: 31 Mar 10 - 01:12 PM

Just what I wanted to read a few minutes before my dinner Cap'n - thanks a bunch!
Jim Carroll