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Thread #40082   Message #571604
Posted By: catspaw49
14-Oct-01 - 12:32 AM
Thread Name: Why are singer-songwriters called folksingers?
Subject: RE: Why are singer/ songwrites called folksi
Oh yeah.......I can see how this one is going to become interesting and we haven't dredged this up in awhile so I believe it may be time once again........
geeziz...did I say that?
........Anyway.........

I think of a flipside to it. There are a boatload of trad songs in the DT that still exist only because we (and others) have archived them, researched them, etc.......And there are some of those very songs that are never sung nowadays. No one has sung them except a handful of folkies in over 50 or 75 years. They are no longer withstanding "the test of time." Are they still folksongs because they used to be?

Just a twist......

Spaw