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Thread #95495   Message #1864379
Posted By: The Sandman
20-Oct-06 - 01:06 PM
Thread Name: So what is *Traditional* Folk Music?
Subject: RE: So what is 'TRADITIONAL' Folk Music ?
There is a school of thought that folksongs are those songs sung at football matches,[ not necessarily my opinion ],some of these are not traditional,
Red Red robin[charlton]Fields ofathenry[celtic], I had a wheel barrow, but the wheel fell off[ NottsCounty], this is an interesting one, apparently composed by someone in the stadium, when the wheelbarrow [that was used for carrying the meat pies]wheel fell off at a match.Iam forever blowing bubbles [west ham].
if these are folk songs [songs sung by the people]they are not traditional, apart from perhaps TheWHEELBARROW SONG as the author is ANON.