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Thread #141558 Message #3259474
Posted By: r.padgett
18-Nov-11 - 02:02 PM
Thread Name: popularisation and commercialisation of roots/trad
Subject: RE: popularisation and commercialisation of roots/trad
Traditional song can still survive if not main stream popular, tho!
Folk clubs have perpetuated these songs for the last 50 years or so!
Revivalist singers continue to re arrange both contemporary and trad songs largely thro their musical ability.
Just seen a fb thread where Bellowhead and Cliff Richard are commenting (dunt know what they said tho!)
However the Bellowhead phenomenon has taken folk music into pop music. Steeleye Span of course did so too!
I think this is an exceptional circumstance, aqmd good luck to 'em but does it do anything for "folk" music?