The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #4892 Message #27246
Posted By: steve t
04-May-98 - 03:46 PM
Thread Name: Shortest definition of folk
Subject: RE: Shortest definition of folk
Folk music away back when? Hmmm. I'd guess that even before money was invented, there were professional and semi-professional musicians, and that much music relied very heavily on religious and/or political subsidies for its distribution and continuance. Furthur, I'm surprised to conclude that wandering minstrels were professionals and therefore much of their music would not, at the time they were singing it, fit this definition of folk.