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Thread #119547   Message #2602741
Posted By: M.Ted
01-Apr-09 - 10:01 PM
Thread Name: 1954 and All That - defining folk music
Subject: RE: 1954 and All That - defining folk music
The difference between the two clips is one of quality, the song, and the idiom, are the same. Actually, a pretty good arguement could be made that Louis Armstrong and company are folk artists playing a traditional, or "Folk" tune, and that the other people are a pop musicians playing a jazz tune, or, as some are prone to say, "ripping off a jazz tune"--it certainly isn't part of their musical tradition--   

And now we know where you are coming from, Sinister Supporter--your examples are really helpful--