The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #45461 Message #673378
Posted By: Steve Parkes
21-Mar-02 - 12:07 PM
Thread Name: What's wrong with 'Folk Music'
Subject: RE: What's wrong with 'Folk Music'
I think all live entertainers who are actually entertaining interact with their audience: even if it's not explicit, they will respond to the audience's behaviour. If you go to a concert of classical music, say, where you listen (and enjoy), it's not what we'd call entertainment; at least in its colloquial sense.
I'm going to stop now: maybe "what is entertainment?" is much like "what is folk?"!