9/5/2023 0 Comments Folk music collector 1950sThe phony folksongs in Warner Brothers’ film A Mighty Wind (2003) constitute an urban revival parody made successful because parody works for an audience already familiar with what is being parodied. Disney’s 1994 animated film, The Lion King, played the Zulu song “Wimoweh,” made famous half a century earlier, first by the Weavers and then by the Kingston Trio. American filmmakers continue to employ urban revival music because it is so familiar to the American ear. Any folk music or folk-like music that is marketed- whether transformed by classical composers (Bach, Beethoven, Brahms and a host of other European masters who incorporated folk melodies into their works) or commercial stage performers, composed and performed by urban song makers, or performed by traditional singers and musicians–is urban folk revival music. Inevitably, outsiders are involved somewhere in the process-as collectors, arrangers, producers, performers, or audience members. The term" urban folk music revival" (or "urban revival" or "folk revival" or "folk music revival") is applied to any performance in which the traditional instrumental or sung expression of a cultural group, whether urban or rural, has been appropriated, modified, and presented to audiences wider than the originating group.
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