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Thread #155765 Message #3668182
Posted By: GUEST,Rahere
11-Oct-14 - 04:28 PM
Thread Name: should folk music be called fake music
Subject: RE: should folk music be called fake music
Comhaltas dates from 1951, and seems to have copied the Welsh Eisteddfod model without having the social background to keep it in context. The Welsh honour the winner without condemning those who don't, because there's only one winner amid a society of millions. It's turning that American argment on its head with some applied socialism, arguing that coming second makes you only the best of the losers means that you're actually the best of the majority, leaving the winner alone on his pedestal.
Anyway, is there a musician here without at least one fake book on his shelves of music? And for the rest of the shelves, performing exactly what the dots say is what MIDI systems do, and it's not music, so all music is to some extent different and therefore fake. Folk just takes the differences further.