The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #119547   Message #2611664
Posted By: John P
15-Apr-09 - 10:22 AM
Thread Name: 1954 and All That - defining folk music
Subject: RE: 1954 and All That - defining folk music
Here's another new Jim Eldon video - the last English Traditional Singer & an example to us all

SS, I've agreed with everything you've said about traditional music until this. Can you describe why you think he's a traditional singer? I see someone who is putting himself up as a performer even though he's not a very good singer or fiddle player, doing a parody of a modern composed song. And doing it all in a silly costume. Where's the traditional?

This is why we get into debates about the meanings of words. If someone like yourself who should know better calls this traditional, what should I call the music I play? "Folk music" is lost to me. "Traditional music" is going. Why are you doing this?