folk music

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Ireland

folk song

is a designation that ought to be applied to all music, for who'se ever heard a horse sing a song?

All music is folk music. I ain't ever heard no horse sing a song!

is not for a select group of people who feel that maybe he taught them about this music and that it belongs to them. It doesn't belong only to them. It belongs to everyone who's interested in the blueprints of good songwriting.

is portable music. It is about getting across a melody that will help the music stick to your ribs so it can be taken from town to town.

's original function was to strengthen and unify people, whether it was through an uprising and rebellion or whether is was through hard work, bringing in crops.

is not so much a body of art as it is a process, an attitude, and a way of life; its distinguishing features lie not within the songs themselves, but in the relations of those songs to a folk culture.

is mostly people with fruity voices trying to keep alive something old and dead.

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