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Thread #58273 Message #923041
Posted By: Blackcatter
31-Mar-03 - 08:38 PM
Thread Name: Folk Music Tradition, what is it?
Subject: RE: Folk Music Tradition, what is it?
Richard there's a difference between what you like and what is wrong (at least in my mind) I dislike most of contemporary pop (ok, ALL) but I don't think they're doing anything wrong.
To me, wrong, implys more in the way of censorship - It's a quick step from a community deciding that an particular album is full of wrong lyrics to a point where their burning them in the town square.
The folk group I used to be in performed Amazing Grace to the tune of House of the Rising Sun. Most peole liked it and sung along, but one guy came up to us after a concert at the local library and said that if it was up to him, we would all be arrested for descerating a work of religious art. A year later, I was watching the David Letterman Show and saw an African American all-male choir do the same thing. And to a standing ovation.