Origins: history of folk songs

Subject: Origins: history of folk songs
From: GUEST,noata
Date: 07 Sep 03 - 01:36 PM

can anyone tell me anything about the history of the folk song?

Subject: RE: Origins: history of folk songs
From: GUEST
Date: 07 Sep 03 - 02:02 PM

Any particular song? Telling you the history of all of them would take a deal of time...

Subject: RE: Origins: history of folk songs
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 07 Sep 03 - 03:23 PM

Old as Man. (er, people).

Subject: RE: Origins: history of folk songs
From: wysiwyg
Date: 07 Sep 03 - 03:25 PM

Use the site's search facilities to find all the old threads on "what is folk" and "what is a folk song" and you will see most of what you must be lookig for. Also look at the Origins thread on any folk song that we have posted here, for a closer look at how a folk song happens.

~S~

Subject: RE: Origins: history of folk songs
From: Sandy Paton
Date: 07 Sep 03 - 03:46 PM

May I suggest that you go to Bookfinder,com and look up Bruno Nettl's two books: "Folk and traditional Music in the Western Continents" and/or "Folk Music in the U.S., an Introduction." Both are good reads, not expensive in paperback editions, and very informative. That's BRUNO NETTL.
    Sandy

Subject: RE: Origins: history of folk songs
From: curmudgeon
Date: 07 Sep 03 - 06:16 PM

Also "Folk Song In England" by A.L. Lloyd, usually available at bookfinder.com. A wonderful historical analysis of folk songs in that country.

Subject: RE: Origins: history of folk songs
From: Alaska Mike
Date: 07 Sep 03 - 06:52 PM

I just wrote another one last week.

Subject: RE: Origins: history of folk songs
From: masato sakurai
Date: 07 Sep 03 - 07:20 PM

Most challenging is Dave Harker's Fakesong: The Manufacture of British 'Folksong' 1700 to the Present Day (Open University Press, 1985). It's not a history of folksong, but a history of concepts of folksong & ballad.

Subject: RE: Origins: history of folk songs
From: GUEST,Me
Date: 07 Sep 03 - 07:58 PM

Forget Dave Harker's early nonsense| He did good when editing the manuscript collection of John Bell for the Surtees Society in 1985, because he had learned something about real traditional songs and gave up on his theory about societial requirements for entertainment, and song writers catering to society's whims, the claptrap he tried to sell earlier.