Ocupation: Musical Artist
Life: March 31, 1917 - September 10, 2009
Birthday: March 31
Death: September 10
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.
topic: Song, Art, Attitude, Folk Music