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Thread #113416 Message #2411336
Posted By: Marilyn
12-Aug-08 - 06:49 AM
Thread Name: What do you consider Folk?
Subject: RE: What do you consider Folk?
GUEST,Shimrod
in your post of 11 Aug 08 - 12:23 PM
" ... for me, the words 'folk music' mean folk music from the British Isles. Folk music from other cultures is, to me, World Music."
Do you work for HMV by any chance? Do you also consider Welsh Military Band music to be folk music?
I'm not sure whether your question is serious or meant to be a joke but, just in case it's serious, I don't want to be rude and not answer.
No, I don't work for HMV and I don't think I've ever been into one of their shops.
You actually made me think a bit deeper about what I'd written (good thing, yes?). I never actually use the term 'World Music' in my head so traditional Swedish tunes I would think of a Swedish Folk Music, French as French Folk Music etc. What I meant to say, but didn't express very well, is that when I think of 'folk music' I think of traditional British music and I further subdivide that into music that sounds Irish or Scottish or Welsh or English. The more modern stuff isn't folk music TO ME (emphasis because I'm not trying to tell anyone else what to think).
Whether some of the modern stuff will become folk music in the next hundred or two hundred years is irrelevant to this thread because the question is 'What do you consider Folk?' and well, we won't be here in a hundred years time!
And no, I don't think that Welsh Military Band Music is folk music at all - but you don't have to agree with me.