The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #39849 Message #567382
Posted By: John P
08-Oct-01 - 09:52 AM
Thread Name: Singing In Dialect
Subject: RE: Singing In Dialect
One of the defining aspects of traditional music, for me, is that it is local music. Doing local music from elsewhere doesn't really feel like folk singing to me. I tend to sing songs using the accent and dialect that folks around here use, no matter where the song is from. Sometimes that means changing the lyrics from whatever dialect I found them in to make them work in American English.
Carefully recreating a performance from the past and/or from somewhere else feels to me more like ethnomusicological research than folk singing.
John Peekstok