[Nz-folk] (no subject)

[Keith & Cheryl]

Bruce said

"All that fake rolled-r accent emulating Texas, the whiny nasal singing about county jails and horses, the Stetson hats & braided clothes and boots with spurs."

I said
A bit like the beards and whiny nasal singing and fake pommy accents  of the traddy singers eh?

Like you Bruce just for fun!
Cheers
Keith



  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Bruce Thomson 
  To: nz-folk at kiwifolk.com 
  Sent: Wednesday, December 20, 2006 5:09 PM
  Subject: [Nz-folk] (no subject)


  Mike, I am guessing that you are teasing when you say that country is the real NZ folk music, but I'll react just for fun...

   

  Country has always been a small, but welcome part of our folk music, but is hardly the folk music of New Zealand because it has always so commonly featured American culture: All that fake rolled-r accent emulating Texas, the whiny nasal singing about county jails and horses, the Stetson hats & braided clothes and boots with spurs. Contrast that with our our Swandris, stockmen's hats & oilskins & gumboots. 

   

  The customary folk music of NZ is a mixture of English/Celtic/American/Canadian/Australian traditional music, and a little bit of international folk music. It's far more extensive than the usually three-chord-ballad rural material called country music. There's also a few nice Maori influences these days through our NZ folk music, but the Maori have their own huge, strong kappa haka culture everywhere and mostly don’t have a lot to do with the folk scene.

   

  Even our country songs aren't country. They're folk music.

   

  RAINBIRD IN THE TEA-TREE     P. Cape

   

  When the rainbird sings in the tea-tree

  And there's cloud on the hills up the back, Look out of your window and you'll see me, I'll be riding down the track.

   

  I'll be droving a mob of black-polls,

  And me dogs'll be foot-sore and done,

  But I'll sing out as I go by your window, Just to show you you are the one.

   

  It's a long drove up from the buwai,

  By Woodcocks and Kaipara Flats,

  And I'm sick of me oilskins and me gumboots, And the rain pelting down off me hat.

   

  I've got a stockwhip over me shoulder,

  I've got a plain golden ring in me pack - So perhaps when I come by your window, I'll be pullin' in off the track.

   

  When the rainbird sings in the tea-tree

  And there's cloud on the hills up the back, Look out of your window and you'll see me, I'll be riding down the track.

   

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  Cheers,

   

  Bruce Thomson

  Palmerston North

   

   

  -----Original Message-----

  From: Mike Moroney [mailto:mikem at earthlight.co.nz]

  Sent: Tuesday, 19 December 2006 10:57 a.m.

  To: nz-folk at kiwifolk.com

  Subject: Re: [Nz-folk] Folk?

   

  > Folk? The Warratahs? They are

  > listed as a Country band

   

  Something I notice that we have trouble getting our heads around is that country music is the folk music of this country.

   

  Cheers

   

  Mike

   



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