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Folk Music
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All of my words, if not well put or well taken, are well meant.
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The distinction between "classical" and "folk" music only really emerged in the late eighteenth and into the nineteenth centuries. The words only make sense (to the extent they do) when they're set in opposition to each other. The musicologist Matthew Gelbart has written a terrific book on the subject called The Invention of Folk Music and Art Music, in which he details how it used to be that musicians just played music: what mattered was the place and purpose, not so much who wrote the tune or
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― Irish Pages, Vol. 12, No. 2: Scotland
― Irish Pages, Vol. 12, No. 2: Scotland
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