http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2008/05/05/inter-changeable-people/ public domain playground. friendly entities welcome. Sun, 22 Nov 2009 11:10:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2008/05/05/inter-changeable-people/comment-page-1/#comment-105431 The Role of Folk Music In The Future - [tmbchr]â„¢ Tue, 06 May 2008 04:22:34 +0000 http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2008/05/05/inter-changeable-people/#comment-105431 [...] But that’s not where folk music comes from, I don’t think. I don’t think folk music comes really from one person. It comes from a “folk” or a “people” or a tribe of people. It’s ownership is shared by those who participate in it: singing, dancing, or even passively listening. It’s ownership is therefore a community affair: the tunes are passed from person to person, and the ancestral archetypal emotional content takes as vessels whoever happens to be around and is ready for it. [...] [...] But that’s not where folk music comes from, I don’t think. I don’t think folk music comes really from one person. It comes from a “folk” or a “people” or a tribe of people. It’s ownership is shared by those who participate in it: singing, dancing, or even passively listening. It’s ownership is therefore a community affair: the tunes are passed from person to person, and the ancestral archetypal emotional content takes as vessels whoever happens to be around and is ready for it. [...]

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