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Origins: fold-song

12 Apr 05 - 09:58 PM (#1459586)
Subject: Origins: fold-song
From: GUEST,R.Lewis

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.


12 Apr 05 - 10:18 PM (#1459595)
Subject: RE: Origins: fold-song
From: Joe Offer

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-


12 Apr 05 - 10:39 PM (#1459609)
Subject: RE: Origins: fold-song
From: Q (Frank Staplin)

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.


12 Apr 05 - 10:44 PM (#1459614)
Subject: RE: Origins: fold-song
From: Q (Frank Staplin)

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


12 Apr 05 - 11:22 PM (#1459631)
Subject: RE: Origins: fold-song
From: Joe Offer

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-


13 Apr 05 - 07:04 AM (#1459825)
Subject: RE: Origins: fold-song
From: The Fooles Troupe

Ok, looks like we need a Fold Sonj Challenme!


13 Apr 05 - 07:35 AM (#1459842)
Subject: RE: Origins: fold-song
From: GUEST

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.


15 Apr 05 - 10:38 AM (#1462148)
Subject: RE: Origins: fold-song
From: Uncle_DaveO

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

Dave Oesterreich


15 Apr 05 - 10:47 AM (#1462160)
Subject: RE: Origins: fold-song
From: Uncle_DaveO

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

Dave Oesterreich


15 Apr 05 - 11:21 AM (#1462186)
Subject: RE: Origins: fold-song
From: radriano

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


15 Apr 05 - 12:29 PM (#1462253)
Subject: RE: Origins: fold-song
From: Jos

What else can you fold?

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


15 Apr 05 - 12:38 PM (#1462264)
Subject: RE: Origins: fold-song
From: Jos

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


15 Apr 05 - 04:10 PM (#1462422)
Subject: RE: Origins: fold-song
From: radriano

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.