There are indeed plenty of things done to folk music... traditional, call it what you will... which I hate, but the meaning I take from him is that at least it gets played, and some versions of it will survive, rather than not happening at all. There will be experiments, some of which lots of us hate, and they might well die off. Think of all those tune books where you take perhaps 3 tunes and let the rest go as rubbish! At least those 3 get to live in your hands. Some people loved Steeleye Span in the 70's, some hated it, some now feel it's very dated, some are probably just finding it. Some of the tunes got picked up & given different treatment later by others... It's a bit like language evolving really. (How many of us use the word "incontinently" to mean "suddenly" any more?) As Winnie the Pooh said, (I think) "That's what I think, anyhow. But I expect I'm wrong." Richard. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Er, not sure I agree with this one... -----Original Message----- From: Richard York [[2]mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 28, 2008 12:22 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [NSP] Re: Not Choyting - advice please Greetings! The celebrated Mr Carthy also said, "The only thing wrong you can do with folk music is not to play it." :-) Richard. Hi all Chris B wrote:- Subject: [NSP] Re: Not Choyting - advice please This is probably heresy to some, but I think it's arguable that Clough's was only one possible way of playing and the one most approved of at the time. there may be more. There is a difference between "bad" and "different" isn't there? As between "wrong" and "not to my taste" or "not in my tradition". I'll add a quote from Martin Carthy "Tradition moves, tradition progresses and is not a pile of stones." Yours in blissful choyting. Ian Bartlett P.S. Any luck in defining a folk instrument yet? Very quiet on that front I note. To get on or off this list see list information at [4]http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html -- References 1. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 2. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 3. mailto:[email protected] 4. http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
