The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #105943   Message #2183799
Posted By: GUEST,TJ in San Diego
31-Oct-07 - 06:24 PM
Thread Name: Folkies
Subject: RE: Folkies
I don't know about you, but such "buzzword" labels are not meaningful to me. This dates from the fifties and early sixties. I once hung out, as a student and post-graduate type, in a number of "old school" coffee houses. The fellow habitues were of all sorts of descriptions; long-haired, short-haired, bearded and clean shaven, intellectual to just plain dull - some even played folk songs. I never heard the term "folkie" used to describe anyone, except in a semi-pejorative way, and usually by the "Ivy League" types.