BS: Is folk music a religion?

Subject: RE: BS: Is folk music a religion?
From: tarheel
Date: 29 Dec 04 - 03:36 PM

i look on the folk music scene as a cult...they all look as if they just woke up from under a rock or come out of the cracks of the walls,everytime a festival is near by....
i have never understood the long pigtail on the guys nor the long hair on the gals...
to me,that combination does NOT a musician make!
and just because thery play in a smelly bar room somewhere in the UK,does not make them a great entertainer either!
when you are the customer and drunker than a cpooder,all music sounds great...no matter who the performers are!
oh,i'm happy that we don't dress up for performances like we did back in the 50's...cowboy hats,boots, coat and ties...anything to make you look nice and clean!
and,your music was clen then too!
no dirty words,or dirty moves on stage....
just a staight performance...(Of course Elvis changed all of that!)
dang,i miss the 50's!
the decade before the hippies and comtemporary country music!

Subject: RE: BS: Is folk music a religion?
From: Once Famous
Date: 29 Dec 04 - 03:39 PM

tarheel, you forgot to mention that the prayers of the folk music religion require braying and warbling.

Subject: RE: BS: Is folk music a religion?
From: Ooh-Aah2
Date: 29 Dec 04 - 03:49 PM

Oh do shut up you idiot.

I think folk music is reminiscent of ancestor worship in various religions - especially Pagan Roman religion where the lares and penates, the spirits of the ancestors and the household, had their own cult. By singing these songs we honour our forbears, their loves, struggles, disasters and triumphs.

Subject: RE: BS: Is folk music a religion?
From: Once Famous
Date: 29 Dec 04 - 04:12 PM

Ooh-Ah Cha Cha Cha.

Was your ancestor Puff the Magic Dragon? do you honor his struggles, disasters, and triumphs by singing his song?

do you pray to the Glen Yarbrough warbling folk music idol>

Pagan roman, my ass.

Subject: RE: BS: Is folk music a religion?
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 29 Dec 04 - 04:14 PM

It all sounds a bit dodgy to me. All very well if your forbears were gallant sailors, or buffalo hunters, or roving jacks of all trades.

but what if they were quantity survryors, carpet layers and hairdressers - these people never get honoured with folksongs...

Subject: RE: BS: Is folk music a religion?
From: Once Famous
Date: 29 Dec 04 - 04:25 PM

Maybe Ooh-Ah's forbearers were hairdressers.

Maybe they were Cha Cha dancers.

Or even guys who worked in Hot dog joints.

I don't know.

Subject: RE: BS: Is folk music a religion?
From: Bert
Date: 29 Dec 04 - 04:46 PM

LOL Kay.

Subject: RE: BS: Is folk music a religion?
From: Once Famous
Date: 29 Dec 04 - 04:59 PM

How's Ernie, Bert?

Hope he's not sore.

Subject: RE: BS: Is folk music a religion?
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 29 Dec 04 - 05:57 PM

I think Martin Gibson is almost a cult.
Giok :~)

Subject: RE: BS: Is folk music a religion?
From: Bert
Date: 29 Dec 04 - 06:08 PM

He'll survive

Subject: RE: BS: Is folk music a religion?
From: tarheel
Date: 29 Dec 04 - 07:39 PM

hehehehe,with a name like Martin Gibson(obviously a nick name of sorts...)he has to be a cunt...oppps,cut....geeezz...cult!!!...lmbo...
too funny!!!!

Subject: RE: BS: Is folk music a religion?
From: Once Famous
Date: 29 Dec 04 - 11:07 PM

No cunt where these legs come together, Hoss.

Subject: RE: BS: Is folk music a religion?
From: Teresa
Date: 30 Dec 04 - 12:15 AM

When I was fifteen, I heard my first "Celtic Music" and truly had a religious experience.   Same with old-time Apppalachian music, and subsequently world music. I could feel the primal nature of it; something timeless and ancient and soul-stirring. So, for me, yes, it has that feeling, along with nature and the recognition of truly human virtues.

And, Giok, I can't help laughing about your prerequisites/conditions. :)

Teresa

Subject: RE: BS: Is folk music a religion?
From: Ooh-Aah2
Date: 30 Dec 04 - 04:13 AM

I am lucky enough to have two forbears whose occupations provide a lot of folk songs - my great-grandfather sailed around Cape Horn to San Francisco and a great many of my others were illiterate farm labourers, which I'm very proud of (resist that temptation Martin! Resist it!). Also soldiers but only wartime recriuts - great uncle died at Passchendaele.

If you sing 'Puff the Magic Dragon' and think it folk music you are a real sad bastard Martin. (Actually I forgive you, I think your outbursts rather fun).

I agree with you completely Teresa. Folk music has the power to make you feel connected to the past in quite a spooky way - I remember the first English song I heard, it was 'Brigg Fair' and all my hair stood on end. "I had that sense of recognition...here was something I'd known all my life, only I didn't know it..." (Ralph Vaughan Williams, on discovering English folk music).

Subject: RE: BS: Is folk music a religion?
From: Once Famous
Date: 30 Dec 04 - 10:00 AM

Ooh-Ahh Cha Cha Cha, you're right. Puff the Magic Dragon is not a children's folk song.

It is a rap song about gay militant lifestyles.

Please get a grip. but glad you like what I post, anyway.

Subject: RE: BS: Is folk music a religion?
From: Ooh-Aah2
Date: 31 Dec 04 - 05:18 AM

Isn't that 'Poof the magic fag-on', Mr Fartin' Gibbon?

OOOOOOOOH YESSSSS!!!! (I just got a good grip).

Subject: RE: BS: Is folk music a religion?
From: Peace
Date: 31 Dec 04 - 05:35 AM

Out with the old and in with the new.

Subject: RE: BS: Is folk music a religion?
From: Peace
Date: 31 Dec 04 - 05:57 AM

The first folk song I recall hearing was that classic done by Lonnie Donegan (sp?). I do not remember the title, but the first line went, "Does your chewing gum lost its flavour on the bedpost over night?" Ever since then I have loved folk music.

The first American folksong I remember was "Flying Purple People Eater."

These songs have stayed with me, almost religiously, and they define the parameters that enclose what I consider to be folk music today.

Subject: RE: BS: Is folk music a religion?
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 31 Dec 04 - 10:06 AM

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Subject: RE: BS: Is folk music a religion?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 31 Dec 04 - 10:44 AM

As religions go, folk music is one of the best.