2526720, yea i agree more with your definition of folk Posted by __Spread__, Fri Mar-18-11 10:40 AM
music as an oral tradition...songs and stories that are who knows how old that continue to move the people...
and yes, they may be corny from time to time but I appreciate the idea of these songs much more than a lot of music that comes out today...To me, the magic of music is immortality and traditional folk songs are an illustration of that...its funny how people are caught up in record sales and endorsements and accolades like that when the true test of great art and music is longevity and adaptability...AFKAP may be right in his assessment of folk music, but if I wrote a corny-ass song that people were still singing 50-100 years after my death, my ashes will be smiling...
so i suppose "folk" is another genre like "rock" or even "hiphop" that doesn't really hold the meaning it originally had, but it is used to describe a certain type of instrumentation rather than an idea or ideal...
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