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Thread #119490 Message #2631574
Posted By: GUEST,Compare and contrast
14-May-09 - 08:45 AM
Thread Name: What makes it a Folk Song?
Subject: RE: What makes it a Folk Song?
Suibhne O'Piobaireachd "a grubby paternalistic fantasy that effectively denies the individual creativity of the perceived lower orders of a still feudal society"
From the 1954 definition: "(ii) variation which springs from the creative impulse of the individual or the group"