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Posted By: GUEST,Art Thieme
30-Nov-04 - 04:02 PM
Thread Name: Obit - Folk music and its relevance
Subject: RE: Obit - Folk music and its relevance
And the late Alex Campbell was a grand example of one who was able to do this!!
In workshops I used to do I tried to show teachers how they could make folksongs relavant for their nstudents. It meant a bit of work for them. They needed to search for songs that illustrated the historical era, the geographic region, the piece of art, or the work of literature they strove to make into an illustrative tool for those parts of the curriculum. The words to the song, even more than the tune, showed life in those other eras in the words of people who had lived through that. Singing a given folksong for or with the students was, as I'm fond of saying, a time machine of sorts that could truly transport and enlighten.
Art Thieme