The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #123745 Message #2727915
Posted By: GUEST
21-Sep-09 - 07:43 AM
Thread Name: Singing with Archetypes
Subject: RE: Singing with Archetypes
"...creativity as a mediumistic phenomenon which is about the manifestation of archetypes for the purposes of the Greater Cultural Catharsis we might overlook as simple Entertainment, which is anything but simple. All narrative is replete with such mythic elements..."
Important to remember that not all creativity is narrative. There's a strong lyric tradition in folk music - particularly in American folk music. It's hard to make such a strong case for the archetype in songs or poems that don't have people in them, or which are collage-like collections of fragments.