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In Reply to: RE: Digging into the History of Folk Music posted by Amphissa on January 26, 2016 at 09:03:34
.., but I think that ALL music is, essentially, "folk" music.
Some folks live in the city while others live in the country. So it's different strokes for different folks, that all.
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Yes, all music certainly is essentially folk.
I remember a few years ago down in our West Country when I was in a pub and the old boys from the village came in with their squeeze boxes and fiddles.
They quickly launched into a spirited arrangement of Varese "Ionisations". Then, as the cider flowed and the spirit became more free, a mesmerising segue followed, Carter into Berio, Berio into Webern, Webern into Cage ending with a slightly drunk rendition of Boulez "Pli Selon Pli".
Of course by this time the whole pub was dancing and singing along. What a summer that was!
Recently read poll results somewhere that showed the most popular instrument
to enjoy Cage's 4'33" on went to the... accordian.
"Once this was all Black Plasma and Imagination" -Michael McClure
Q: What is the difference between an accordian and an onion?
A: Nobody cries when you chop up an accordian.
Wow, it almost sounds as if you are describing a masquerade ball in Belgravia! Exactly how far West did you go?
Kensington.
They're a ravenous hoard and they all came aboard at Sloan Square and South Kensington stations.
All people are folks so all music is folk music
"Man is the only animal that blushes - or needs to" Mark Twain
"Primitive" vs. "refined" would seem to be the issue. Not that *refined* is always or in every way "better" than *primitive* is.Not so say that, due (in part) to steps made during a process of refinement, actual *revelations* don't sometimes occur. And I suspect that genres are born in exactly this way, at least some of the time...
In music making, all that really matters is that a particular occasion has been dealt with. Mother in the bedroom sings like this, opera star in hall sings like that. "Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow; The rest is all but leather or prunella." - Alexander Pope.
Edits: 01/27/16 01/27/16
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