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Re: How To Evaluate-Judge-Quantify

Philly the Kid (apriori@slip.net)
Tue, 10 Jun 1997 18:01:28 -0500

>If youdo field work and collect folk music you know how long you must wait,
>how patient you must be and how much garbage you musdt record before
>suddenly a bolt of lightning strikes and yopu get something. If you are
>nmot well versed, will you recognize that lightning bolt? Will you know
>where you should continue to record?

What makes something a "folk" music as opposed another category? Is there
any meat in these categories? What is garbage - to use such a term do we
have to have a consensus?

Rico