[mplpost] definitions needed?

[Ben Sures]

The following is what I wrote to Estelle, thought I might as well share it
with everyone else.
Ben
>
>Folk music is music that relates personal experience on a universal level.
>I believe folk music contains less fiction than other forms of music. Folk
>music that is fiction based always has a moral, or a lesson or is a story
>thats been passed down til its adapted and become legend, its music with
>purpose . Folk music is music of the people not of the popular agenda.
>	When Ani Difranco first appeared she was a voice for a demographic
>of people that previously had no voice, no Artist that truly spoke for
>them.Like Dylan when he started out. Maybe folk music always has truth
>and/or greater purpose than sales and popularity. Folk singers who write
>songs usually do so cause they feel they must, they need to address
>something.
>	Dave Bromberg had a song called wathching baby fall , I think thats
>what it was called.This song was a fictional account of a parent watching
>his child lead a life ending up in prison. Every time I heard this song, I
>cringed, because it felt insincere. To me it felt like vanity seeking
>reaction, this is not folk music. Thats the beauty of great folk music and
>the folk audience, its hard to bull shit them.
>These are my speculative ramblings on folk music, Estelle.
>Cheers
>Ben Sures
>
>

Ben Sures
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