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Thread #155357   Message #3665137
Posted By: Musket
01-Oct-14 - 03:07 PM
Thread Name: What makes a new song a folk song?
Subject: RE: What makes a new song a folk song?
Millions of people worldwide have a fair idea of what folk is. A few pseuds think it is the exclusive property of a bunch of idealist academics in The UK in 1954.

Not getting het up about anything. Just pissing myself that you think folk is limited to tit trousers and his acolytes.

I know what folk is. It's a genre of music amongst other things. As recognised by the thousands I mingled with at Cambridge etc. By the millions of albums released as folk, by the myriad concerts by folk acts around the world and the many folk song writers we love and cherish in folk clubs.

And that's where I'm off to. My set is one trad, one Harding, one Thompson and two of my own.

That's all folk!

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