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Thread #119547   Message #2607230
Posted By: GUEST,glueman
08-Apr-09 - 08:12 AM
Thread Name: 1954 and All That - defining folk music
Subject: RE: 1954 and All That - defining folk music
Dunno 'why designated folk contexts' raise such ire. If responses on Mudcat are anything to go by intellectualism and anti-intellectualism are wielded freely in folkspeak and rebuffed or embraced depending on whose side the word-monger is. One would imagine the promoters of '54 might be keen on taxonomic precision but responses suggest linguistic exactitude is frowned upon by and large, in favour of homespun saws and tags.

1954 definitions require mass adherence to be definitive and I see no such concensus.