Origins: fold-song

Subject: Origins: fold-song
From: GUEST,R.Lewis
Date: 12 Apr 05 - 09:58 PM

I keep running across the term "fold-song" used not only with folk music but also with pop songs. I haven't been able to pin down any kind of a definition though. Can anyone help me on this? Thank you in advance.

Subject: RE: Origins: fold-song
From: Joe Offer
Date: 12 Apr 05 - 10:18 PM

I think it's typographical dyslexia. "k" is hit by the third finger of the right hand, and "d" by the third finger of the left hand - unless the typist gets left and right confused.
It happens to me all the time.
-Joe Offer-

Subject: RE: Origins: fold-song
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 12 Apr 05 - 10:39 PM

Marcia Pankake wrote "A Prairie Home Companion Fold Song Book."
Alan Lomax lectured on the subject.
There is a NZ fold song website.
Shenandoah, American fold song, arr. James Erb.
"A spiritual is a type of African American fold song"

Fold song- A ballad, a ditty, a popular song. Used in Japanese translation.

?? Confusing.

Subject: RE: Origins: fold-song
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 12 Apr 05 - 10:44 PM

Joe, 'fold song' may supplant 'folk song.' Pages of it in Google.

Subject: RE: Origins: fold-song
From: Joe Offer
Date: 12 Apr 05 - 11:22 PM

See what I mean, Q?
Dyslexia is all around us.
The dyslexics may take over the world.
Where is Jedgar Hoober when we need him?
-Joe Offer-

Subject: RE: Origins: fold-song
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 13 Apr 05 - 07:04 AM

Ok, looks like we need a Fold Sonj Challenme!

Subject: RE: Origins: fold-song
From: GUEST
Date: 13 Apr 05 - 07:35 AM

fold song, n. 1. A song which may be folded twice lengthwise, then in 45-degree angles and interlocked, for use as a cootie-catcher, q.v. It sounds rather muffled in performance. 2. a song abandoned in mid-performance because the performer has forgotten the rest of the words.

Subject: RE: Origins: fold-song
From: Uncle_DaveO
Date: 15 Apr 05 - 10:38 AM

Here I had thought this was a thread about what shepherds sing to their sheep!

Dave Oesterreich

Subject: RE: Origins: fold-song
From: Uncle_DaveO
Date: 15 Apr 05 - 10:47 AM

Strange! I added the preceding post, and the thread didn't pop to the top! Something isn't working.

Dave Oesterreich

Subject: RE: Origins: fold-song
From: radriano
Date: 15 Apr 05 - 11:21 AM

Naw, you've all got it wrong.

A fold-song is any song sung while folding something, usually clothes. What else can you fold? Well, I sometimes like to sing when I'm folding my hands and occasionally when I'm folding thoughts in my head although that's a more abstract type of folding.

Here's another type of folding. I work in an office and when I'm doing filing or making labels for folders I like to think of this work as "folding" - of course, I usually sing to my self while doing this.

Radriano

Subject: RE: Origins: fold-song
From: Jos
Date: 15 Apr 05 - 12:29 PM

What else can you fold?

Well you could do some origami with your papers before putting them in the folders.

Subject: RE: Origins: fold-song
From: Jos
Date: 15 Apr 05 - 12:38 PM

Maybe a 'fold song' is just a 'f...... old song'?

Subject: RE: Origins: fold-song
From: radriano
Date: 15 Apr 05 - 04:10 PM

There are two Australians, David Friend and Simon Morley, who put on a live show called "Puppetry of the Penis" - they call what they do the ancient art of "Genital Origami" - so, Joe, there's something else you can fold! While singing, no doubt.