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Thread #155357   Message #3665720
Posted By: Musket
03-Oct-14 - 11:18 AM
Thread Name: What makes a new song a folk song?
Subject: RE: What makes a new song a folk song?
Err. Michael.

In case you forgot or had a nap between posts me old love, we are talking a word.

The word is folk.

"Millions of people" is relevant as it is a clincher for dictionary definitions.

Let's see.. Jim "Tit Tousers" Carroll, assorted librarians and Michael are precious over the word, but millions of albums, millions of concerts and millions of people worldwide know the word in the English language called folk and associate it with a general loose genre of music amongst other things.

What shall we do?

Err...

Fuck 'em. It's all folk.

Even traditional songs from The UK, regardless of their provenance.

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