Sam Hinton Quotes:

A professional entertainer who allows himself to become known as a singer of folk songs is bound to have trouble with his conscience provided, of course, that he possesses one. As a performing artist, he will pride himself on timing and other techniques designed to keep the audience in his control [...] his respect for genuine folklore reminds him that these changes, and these techniques, may give the audience a false picture of folk music.

source: - "The Singer of Folk Songs and His Conscience". Book by Sam Hinton, Western Folklore 14:3, p. 170 - 173, July 1955.

Topics: Song, Pride, Artist, Performing Artist, Folk Songs

Folk music is not so much a body of art as it is a process, an attitude, and a way of life; its distinguishing features lie not within the songs themselves, but in the relations of those songs to a folk culture.

source: - "The Singer of Folk Songs and His Conscience". Western Folklore, p. 170 - 173, July 1955.

Topics: Song, Art, Attitude, Folk Music

The Urban Literate Southern California Sub-Group of the Early Atomic Period has not yet produced a distinct body of folk music of its own.

source: - "The Singer of Folk Songs and His Conscience" by Sam Hinton, Western Folklore, 14.3, July 1965.

Topics: California, Southern, Body