The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #119490   Message #2631203
Posted By: Richard Bridge
13-May-09 - 07:26 PM
Thread Name: What makes it a Folk Song?
Subject: RE: What makes it a Folk Song?
I gave the Oxford English Dictionary meaning of diegesis a very long time ago.

I cannot see Gg's effusions above as anything other than irrelevancies. Certainly I have never suggested that only 1954 definition folk should be all that is sung in folk clubs (or anywhere else). Equally I positively enthuse about reframing the delivery of folk song. There seems to be more than a touch of Don Quixote about Gg's attack.

The parallel with "King of the Castle" seems utterly false.

I still don't see any beneficent intent.

I still can't trace the early posts of Gg's where he was so abrasively treated. All I can find is him rubbishing folk music.

As for the poster formerly known as Sinister Supporter, it is surely inherent in the 1954 definition that the members of the community participate in the delivery and therefore evolution of folk song - one of the main factors that distinguishes it from consumerist music.