[Harp-L] Re: folk disagreement

[James Thurgood <jthurgood@xxxxxxxxx>]

I'm sure this will end up as one of those
agree-to-disagree issues, but -

You're right that Winslow is not talking about "folk
music as it is presented by major festivals,
coffeehops, clubs, record companies and musicians
today".  Winslow is talking about folk music period. 
The stuff that for the most part is NOT "presented by
major festivals", etc.  There's a lot world of it out
there, and some of it is played on harmonica.  Get out
and find it and listen to it before dismissing it all
as a "sub-genre" .  


- thurg


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Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2006 07:47:38 -0800 (PST)
From: Michael Rubin 
Subject: [Harp-L] Folk disagreement
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Winslow writes:
  But it sounds like the singer-songwriter thing is
what you're 
thinking
of. For some reason a songwriter plays an acoustic
guitar and some
people call it "folk" when folk is the opposite -
songs that have been
around and styles that have been around for hundreds
of years and are
part of the culture.
   
  I disagree.  I think that concept is one subset of
the larger genre 
of folk music as it is presented by major festivals,
coffeehops, clubs, 
record companies and musicians today.
   
 


 
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