Re: "elevating" ("improving") folk music

[Velaires <Velaires...>]

Somehow, the idea that some college boys deem "serious" being somehow better 
than "folk music" -- i.e. music that non-academic people make up for their 
own use -- is kind of repugnant.  In 200 yrs, when people want to get a fix 
on what we were about, they're not going to look for Elliot Carter.  They're 
going to check out Public Enemy, Bob Dylan, and the Minutemen.

Charles Ives was right about "the music of the ages".  It's not in trained 
people giving us "pretty little notes".  Rather, it belongs to people with 
lives.

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