The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #3532   Message #17864
Posted By: Alice
18-Dec-97 - 03:08 PM
Thread Name: young folkies?
Subject: RE: young folkies?
Confession. My birthday is Saturday, Dec. 20. I will be 46. My theory about the baby boomers like me is that we STILL think we are the "young generation". We are locked into our college age years or there abouts in our self identity. I guess because they were such intensely formative years for our American culture, and because of the impact of our numbers. We did alot in big groups... group demonstrations, group singing, group living, group .... anyway, I was always hesitant to join groups, but even the rugged individualists conformed in some way. Having a grandfather from Leitrim, another who played fiddle, and being in a Montana-blue-collar-railroad-Irish-Catholic type of community, the Clancy Bros. and Tommy Makem were kings, at the top of the list... with all other folk type performers coming after. The ones most admired by my brothers and me were the folks who gathered up the music of the common people... Alan Lomax, etc, and people like Theodore Bickel, who would sing things in other languages. But, I digress. Back to the question, where do we draw the age line between old folkies and young folkies? Alice in Montana