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| selby | 26 Oct 99 - 02:44 PM | |
| Vixen | 26 Oct 99 - 03:37 PM | |
| Frank Hamilton | 26 Oct 99 - 03:45 PM | |
| AKS | 27 Oct 99 - 04:31 AM | |
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Subject: Traditional?? From: selby Date: 26 Oct 99 - 02:44 PM I have deliberately not searched for previous threads to this question as I sense a lot of new people myself included appearing on MUDCAT. So in the current light of the problems with copywrite. WHAT MAKES A TUNE OR SONG TRADITIONAL? OR IS THERE A TIME SCALE? Keith |
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Subject: RE: Traditional?? From: Vixen Date: 26 Oct 99 - 03:37 PM Keith-- That's a good question...I suggest you do a fourm search for the "what is folk" discussion, and follow the links in those threads. If they don't answer the question of "what is traditional?" for you, bring it back to the forum. I'd say any song for which the composer's name has vanished in the mists of time has got to be traditional. Beyond that, the "time scale" of the traditions is various--bluegrass, for example, is a 20th century genre, so "traditional" tunes can be attributed to Bill Monroe, hence obviating my definition above. A "traditional" rock'n'roll song is probably no older than 1950, whereas a ballad from the Ozarks should be able trace its roots to a 17th c. British or Irish or Scots broadside ballad in order to claim to be "traditional." I hope that helps!!! V (relinquishing the soapbox and tossing her $0.02 into the hat on the floor)
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Subject: RE: Traditional?? From: Frank Hamilton Date: 26 Oct 99 - 03:45 PM Bluegrass has antecedents in earlier string band music and folk music of Appalachia and the South. The music itself may well be thought of as an extension of the Southern Mountain tradition of folk music (Alan Lomax called it "folk music with overdrive") but the songs written recently for bluegass are more akin to popular music. Listening to the lyrics of recent bluegrass songs, you can definitely hear the influences of the popular songwriter in the preoccupation with unrequited love themes that borrow from pop songs and some of the lyrics of Nashville songwriters. Frank Hamilton |
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Subject: RE: Traditional?? From: AKS Date: 27 Oct 99 - 04:31 AM The kernel of the international agreement on copyright is this: the copyright is 'on' as long as the author lives PLUS seventy (70) years after that. Then the 'object' of cr becomes 'free'. So, a lot of music that we consider as 'traditional' is not at all free of copyright, and - put the opposite way - a lot of 'free' music is not at all traditional. Even though the copyright is a positive thing from the author's point of view, the period of protection has become too long, thinks I! AKS from Joensuu, Finland |
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