The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #116310   Message #2502967
Posted By: GUEST, Sminky
27-Nov-08 - 12:03 PM
Thread Name: How traditional should it be?
Subject: RE: How traditional should it be?
Barring some global catastrophe that destroys every type of recording/playback device (and leaving only myself and handful of other survivors), that is the end of the folk process as we know it. (Rosie - Latin, Manx and Cornish are dead languages - even though some people still speak them).

This leaves us with a stark choice:

1) We compose some kind of statement for future generations explaining why, after centuries of glorious outpouring, no folk songs were created in the 21st century, or

2) We rethink what relevance the 'folk process' has today.