The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #132798 Message #3006827
Posted By: Stringsinger
14-Oct-10 - 10:08 AM
Thread Name: No, really -- what IS NOT folk music?
Subject: RE: No, really -- what IS NOT folk music?
1. Symphonic orchestral music
2. Sophisticated modern jazz
3. Atonal music ala Schoenberg
4. Highly developed composed music through the ages including Musica Antiqua
5. Theremin music
6. Anything by Cole Porter, Jerome Kern, and George Gershwin and the old Broadway show writers. These tunes could never have been written communally in aural tradition.
7. Big Bill Broonzy's dictum about horses misses the point. The role of some individuals in composing music are not duplicable in a folk tradition.