Don't you think this genre might fade if it doesn't receive the attention it deserves? It is the kind of music you won't find in mainstream music. There's also the factor of the availability of musical instruments. Companies might close down with limited customers. What's the outlook on this music genre?
Rusty Messages: 1193 Registered: May 2018 Location: Kansas City Missouri
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It may never reach it's heyday as it was in the 1960's but like other genres such as bluegrass should be maintained by a smaller segment of society. There is no loss of availability to find and listen to many old genres of music today. Much more than ever I'd recon. I don't think there's any lack of acoustic instruments being made yet.
There's a certain charm to old timey music. Like old Gid Tanner & His Skillet Lickers.
Fade completely? No way! It will never be as popular as it once was, but it's too easy to store digital music on the cheap for any genre to become extinct. Folk music will always be around.
Thanks to the internet, there may even be a forum for folk music. I don't think modernity will overpower traditional music. One of the reasons is the competitions held for that. It might even trend as soon as it gains attention.
It's still pretty popular in some places like the Appalachian Region. Besides, it seems like popular genres are cyclical. What once was old will come back into popularity. It might be slightly modernized, though.
I bet it won't fade because genres also have a long history. Some things about it might change since it happens that society is also a factor when making music. However, folk music won't disappear just like that.
gofar99 Messages: 1950 Registered: May 2010 Location: Southern Arizona
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Hi, I doubt it will fade either. A lot now is listed in the "pop" category. It may evolve a bit, but as long as there are folks that like it, it will continue. One thing related is that many of the musicians of the folk genre have passed away. The newer ones are not familiar to many older listeners. Some still are doing music....Emily Harris, Mark Knofler, Judy Collins, etc. New groups like Blue Mountain, Monsters of Folk and several from Canada sound a lot like folk music to me. I was there in the early 60s and saw several of them live.
Folk won't die. There will always be an audience for that. If you gave Bob Dylan an acoustic guitar to play one of his newer songs on, it would be folk music.
I don't think folk music will fade. It reached its peak in the 60's when someone gave a 50's beatnik a guitar, but even then it wasn't mainstream. It was just a new form of music that drew an audience. It will always be that, really.
What's odd is that I don't want to listen to it, at least not the primitive stuff, but I don't want it to disappear either. I guess because it's part of our history.
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