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GUEST,Mike Miller Folklore: Entrepreneurship stories as Folklore (29) RE: Folklore: Entrepreneurship stories as Folklore 30 Jul 06


Paul Burke makes a cogent point. Folk songs imply a folk, or representative group. Entrepreneurs are, by nature, individualists and, when they employ others, they form a separate group of their employees who, often, produce folksongs of their own. Sharecroppers, cowboys, miners, factory workers are, by definition, societies with their own lore, legends and songs. It's not that money men aren't musical, it's that they do not constitute a defineable "folk". Unlike their employees, the entrepreneur's peers are his competitors, not his colleagues. I believe that the same holds true for graphic artists. I know no songs from the fine art community. (I'm not talking about songs like "Vincent", which is about a painter but not from a painter.) It's tough to write about a group that doesn't really exist.

                   Mike


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