The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #119547   Message #2595336
Posted By: Phil Edwards
23-Mar-09 - 11:10 AM
Thread Name: 1954 and All That - defining folk music
Subject: RE: 1954 and All That - defining folk music
If someone writes a song in 2009 about the lives of British working people, should we ignore it because it is not a folk song?

That's an easy one. No, but we shouldn't say that it is a folk song.