Folk Music 22d Century

Subject: RE: Folk Music 22d Century
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 24 Feb 08 - 07:54 PM

Pretty. Pretty vacant, to quote the Sex Pistols, but pretty anyway.

Subject: RE: Folk Music 22d Century
From: Rapparee
Date: 24 Feb 08 - 06:58 PM

Betcha they'll be playing guitars, fiddles, squeeze boxes, whistles, flutes, and even bodhrans.

Might not be any electricity to power anything else....

Subject: RE: Folk Music 22d Century
From: Padre
Date: 24 Feb 08 - 06:10 PM

Sounds like any number of Windham Hill records. Pleasant, but not very exciting [in other words, sounds nothing like Charlie Poole or Riley Puckett]

Padre

Subject: RE: Folk Music 22d Century
From: Amos
Date: 24 Feb 08 - 05:45 PM

Oh, aren't you the cheery sod.

Do you know how many Doomsday predictions this species has survived?

Probably in the tens of thousands.


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Subject: RE: Folk Music 22d Century
From: GUEST,Shimrod
Date: 24 Feb 08 - 05:20 PM

This assumes that anyone will make it to the 22nd Century. It's looking doubtful at the moment.

Subject: Folk Music 22d Century
From: Amos
Date: 24 Feb 08 - 05:10 PM

It is reasonable to wonder, given the accelerating rate of change in human life on the wave of post-industrial technologies, what music people will make in the future that will be the equivalent of hearth or tavern folk music in centuries past.

Here's a candidate example of the pleasures crude peasants of the early 21st century took in composing their simple tunes, little suspecting they would live down the ages as "folk music" one day.


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