The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #104631   Message #2148531
Posted By: GUEST,Shimrod
13-Sep-07 - 05:46 PM
Thread Name: How much Folk Music is there?
Subject: RE: How much Folk Music is there?
Cap'n,

I expressed MY view of traditional singers as follows:

"In fact my impression is that many traditional singers were highly intelligent men and women who learned their songs from a variety of sources ..." (my post, 13 Sep 07 @ 10:27 am).

And I'm pretty certain that they did it CONSCIOUSLY and not in some sort of rustic, rural, mystical, ethnic trance.