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LOGGER: Andrew Connors
REEL NUMBER: 4  STAGE: AFS Cemtemial[[?]]
DATE: 7/2/88  PRESENTOR: Charles Camp
GROUP NAME: What Folklore Is... And Isn't
REGION/STYLE:

PERFORMER(S)  INSTRUMENT/OCCUPATION
Dan Sheehy, Ethnomusicologist, Wash., D.C.
Conrado Rosales  Salvadoran Musician

CONTENTS
1. Introduction by C. Camp
2. Dan Sheehy: Distinction between folk and popular musicians; perception of performers themselves
3. An oral tradition in all music not just "folk" music; many pieces passed down orally where originally written and thus the folk performances of these works are essentially arrangements
4. C. Rosales: welcomes the audience and congratulates inhabitants of the Americas
5. Facility of Salvadorean musicians with a variety of instruments; C. Rosales admires much of American music, jazz, blues, etc.; Idea of Salvadorean music goes back to pre-Columbian times; adaptation of internationally popular music genres into Salvadoran performance
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8. The written aspect of secular religious music allows musicians to play a wide variety of styles or types
9. C. Camp, stereotype of folk music; is there a "style" which typifies folk music?
10. D. Sheehy: code words used by different cultures to indicate "folk music" such as "authentico" in Central America
11. Public question: is folk music generally considered historical or of the past in the student/stereotypical view
12. D. Sheehy: Folk [[?]] help people/communities create a complete image of their cultures; folk traditions help establish a personality C. Rosales: folk music also illustrates history of personalities; composers and earlier interpreters
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