The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #155357   Message #3661169
Posted By: Jim Carroll
17-Sep-14 - 09:01 AM
Thread Name: What makes a new song a folk song?
Subject: RE: What makes a new song a folk song?
"But it hasn't been defined Jim. The 1954 definition was out of date as it was written."
By whose reckoning, and what has replaced it?
It has always needed updating, no argument, but nobody has and it serves as a guide for virtually every published collection and the output of labels like Topic and the School of Scottish Studies.
Any form of definition has become inconvenient for the present club scene so nobody has bothered
Jim Carroll