things in dylan lyrics

[sus]

"the pumps don't work cuz the vandals took the handles" is a good line, especially in its cultural context

 

[sus]

Look out kid It’s somethin’ you did God knows when But you’re doin’ it again

 

[germaphobian]

 

[kid charlemagne]

thank you for this

 

[kid charlemagne]

i just emailed in filling out an application to be an extra in the chalamet bob dylan movie. pray for me

 

[thirdform]

This is great this all sounds right to me. A master stylist. He made a breakthrough a huge step in the "game" of folk music.

it's not folk music. Folk music is what americans call it to deflect from the fact that they are a nation of settlers. That isn't even a woke take, it's just facts.

 

[thirdform]

folk music is about peasants and getting shot by village inspectors and
landlords. It's not a genre. I don't mind Dylan but he's pop music, and you lot need to except it.

 

[sus]

it's not folk music. Folk music is what americans call it to deflect from the fact that they are a nation of settlers. That isn't even a woke take, it's just facts.

Yes I agree, I wrote a 30 page paper in uni on the subject, but also there is a legitimate blues&appalachia derived folk tradition in America, with peasant irish injections, that becomes a popular song tradition over the course of the 20th C, with 50s/60s Greenwich+Cambridge as important centers in these trajectories, and these were local/microtraditions in which Dylan made moves at first, and then on the national stage

 

[0bleak]

Yes I agree, I wrote a 30 page paper in uni on the subject, but also there is a legitimate blues&appalachia derived folk tradition in America, with peasant irish injections

Scotch-Irish Americans - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[0bleak]

The 5 string banjo

"and they would have these square dances at night and have a good time - maybe one or two get killed, and then next week they would have another and maybe wouldn't but one get killed *laughs*"

 

[0bleak]

Bob Dylan & Earl Scruggs - East Virginia Blues (LIVE FOOTAGE 1971)

 

[germaphobian]

This is proper folk music:

 

[germaphobian]

thank you for this

This is also good. I really admire that Christian period, loads of people think I'm crazy for saying that, but at I actually think that was him at his peak.

 

[thirdform]

Yes I agree, I wrote a 30 page paper in uni on the subject, but also there is a legitimate blues&appalachia derived folk tradition in America, with peasant irish injections, that becomes a popular song tradition over the course of the 20th C, with 50s/60s Greenwich+Cambridge as important centers in these trajectories, and these were local/microtraditions in which Dylan made moves at first, and then on the national stage

I can agree with this. Bob Dylan is a folk tradition influenced pop artist.

But when people talk about american folk what they generally mean is Appalachian music or blues, rather than native american folk music, which is actually the agrarian folk form of the US.

 

[thirdform]

Of course, native american music has a significant influence on the blues.

 

[0bleak]

I can agree with this. Bob Dylan is a folk tradition influenced pop artist.

But when people talk about american folk what they generally mean is Appalachian music or blues, rather than native american folk music, which is actually the agrarian folk form of the US.

I guess this is true, but I also can't remember my ex or her family or anyone on her rez or anyone we met at pow wows calling it folk music.

 

[WashYourHands]

This isn’t a university of YT post and covers a bunch of prior posts all of which circle the discussion

 

[sus]

Of course, native american music has a significant influence on the blues.

Does it?

 

[sus]

First I've heard of, wild if true

 

[sus]

I guess this is true, but I also can't remember my ex or her family or anyone on her rez or anyone we met at pow wows calling it folk music.

Tell us about native 0gf, trips to the rez, storytime!