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Thread #119490   Message #2630193
Posted By: GUEST,Shimrod
12-May-09 - 04:05 PM
Thread Name: What makes it a Folk Song?
Subject: RE: What makes it a Folk Song?
"It [the 1954 definition] contains interesting ideas, a challenge to authorship in a period marked by personal rather than community expression but takes the point to absurdity insisting anonimity is of the essense, not a consequence." 'glueman'

Well, here's the relevant part about authorship (as recently posted by Mr Happy):

"The term can be applied to music that has been evolved from rudimentary beginnings by a community uninfluenced by popular and art music and it can likewise be applied to music which has originated with an INDIVIDUAL COMPOSER and has subsequently been absorbed into the unwritten living tradition of a community."

So where's the insistence that "anonymity is of the essence", 'glueman'?