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24 Feb 08 - 05:10 PM (#2271290) Subject: Folk Music 22d Century From: Amos 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. A |
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24 Feb 08 - 05:20 PM (#2271297) Subject: RE: Folk Music 22d Century From: GUEST,Shimrod This assumes that anyone will make it to the 22nd Century. It's looking doubtful at the moment. |
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24 Feb 08 - 05:45 PM (#2271319) Subject: RE: Folk Music 22d Century From: Amos Oh, aren't you the cheery sod. Do you know how many Doomsday predictions this species has survived? Probably in the tens of thousands. A |
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24 Feb 08 - 06:10 PM (#2271338) Subject: RE: Folk Music 22d Century From: Padre 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 |
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24 Feb 08 - 06:58 PM (#2271378) Subject: RE: Folk Music 22d Century From: Rapparee Betcha they'll be playing guitars, fiddles, squeeze boxes, whistles, flutes, and even bodhrans. Might not be any electricity to power anything else.... |
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24 Feb 08 - 07:54 PM (#2271407) Subject: RE: Folk Music 22d Century From: McGrath of Harlow Pretty. Pretty vacant, to quote the Sex Pistols, but pretty anyway. |