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Thread #119547   Message #2603023
Posted By: GUEST,glueman
02-Apr-09 - 08:52 AM
Thread Name: 1954 and All That - defining folk music
Subject: RE: 1954 and All That - defining folk music
Glad to hear it HJ. So much of what passes for folk's critical theory is preference dressed in a different hat.
If Bert Lloyd and the rest of the collectors were discovered to have written every word it wouldn't make an ounce of difference to the continued performance and reception of folk. Like the adherents to Genesis (the biblical prologue, not the popular music combo) if people's beliefs stretch no further than literal truths they're destined to be endlessly disappointed.