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Thread #112851 Message #2397021
Posted By: Stringsinger
24-Jul-08 - 04:23 PM
Thread Name: What is Folk? Is RAP the NEw Folk?
Subject: RE: What is Folk? Is RAP the NEw Folk?
Rap is international. Much folkmusic (songs from Appalachia and Blues) are violent,
and speaking about terrible things. A lot of rap you don't hear because the radio only
plays the commercial kind, (the kind that sells to white kids). There is political rap which I happen to like from Chuck D and others that will never make radio stations. Rap is folk
because it is transmitted culturally and emanates from the street corner and not from the pens of paid songwriters necessarily. Maybe some of you would like to be listening to Pretty Polly and think that's different. Or Fair Ellender staving off the Brown Girl's head and throwing it against the wall. It's all relative.
Frank Hamilton