Talk:Folkies

(IchBin 06:38, 18 December 2005 (UTC)) Corrected spelling errors.

I did a little more cleanup. I suggest that this be cleaned thoroughly, and probably citations added, before it is merged, if it is to be merged at all. -- Jmabel | Talk 09:36, 5 January 2006 (UTC)

There are some good points made in this article, but Folk Music is a much more serious article - must be careful not to dilute the quality of that article with conjecture from this one. e.g. "They favored reggae rhythms for traditional songs and didgeridoos in country dance-bands". I can't think of a single country dance band that ever used a didgeridoo - were there any?

"A certain amount of credibility has returned to the folkie with the arrival of Post-rock and Americana. The music of The Magnetic Fields, Granddaddy, Bonnie "Prince" Billy and Devendra Banhart is not so far removed from acoustic folk. The Pogues and The Corrs brought traditional tunes back into the album charts." Surely the whole point with people like Bonnie Prince Charlie and The Pogues is that they (and their fans) are not folkies? There may be a transatlantic communication problem here. I don't know what the US take on folkies is, but here in England it tends to involve the real ale, sandals, arran sweater, finger-in-the-ear stereotype.--Andyturner 12:09, 31 January 2006 (UTC)

Neutral
The article seems to encourage the view that the term "Folkie" is negative. Yet it is more that the article itself is negative toward folk music followers, and indicates that only recent examples of folk music has street cred. I tried to introduce some neutral point of view in the introduction, but then I gave up. I suspect that the bulk of this article would need to be deleted to make it neutral. The authors are pursuing a personal point of view which though valid through their perception, is very unbalanced to a general point of view. SilkTork 21:51, 1 February 2006 (UTC)

Merged
I merged the main parts of the article in the Folk Music article. SilkTork 22:15, 1 February 2006 (UTC)