Folkwrongica

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

I got absorbed enough in this Guardian piece to miss my tube stop:

http://music.guardian.co.uk/folk/story/0,,2071468,00.html

A lot of its anecdotal material is good and I can't much disagree with the central argument (tho as they admit Tosches summarises it more neatly) but I didn't like the conclusion - even as a staunch poptimist "the inherent democracy of pop junk" is a MASSIVE handwave.

Comments

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

everything comes back to the 80s indie chart :)

i suppose (he says typing whilst thinking) that because these songs were not originally heard (composed?) as acoustical renditions that's why they don't "count", BUT is acousticalness a defining part of folk-as-genre?

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Acousticalness = more significant of poorer ppl who cannot afford recording studio/electricity/portability of anything more than guitar-on-back. Also, it is more spontaneous.

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

hmmm, not sure there, can also signify pretending to be poor/downtrodden/surfbum. see jack jones...