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...other times, Mora becomes too engrossed in writing in a folk tradition and falls into the trap of sentimentality and kitsch. "Corn and trees glow in the sunset, grace manifest May our work enrich the earth. Hear our request/This night and at our death, en paz may we rest," she writes in "Saint Isidore the Farmer." Such passages lose the transcendent quality that should mark them as religious poetry. They are too focused on this earth. More often than not, though, Mora manages to find the right balance between religion and reality, between the glory of the next life...
This impromptu, folk-adapted medley perfectly echoed the mood of the entire evening. While PMB is known for its lyric eloquence, rousing percussion and stirring vocal and instrumental musicality, what struck me most was the band's relaxed, simple character and natural, inviting charisma...
...Dylan plugged in his guitar, turned on to an electric sound and tuned out the chiding and disgust of fans who felt he had abandoned folk music. With "Maggie's Farm" Dylan broke with what many considered an unwritten contract forged among artists including Joan Baez, Woody Guthrie and other poets who put politically conscious poetry to music. At Newport he shouted back at hecklers who called him Judas; Dylan later proclaimed that he no longer considered himself an anti-war, singularly motivated musician and sought instead to represent only himself and his music...
...there are some musical categories which tend to be associated with a constructed definition; artists, journalists and others who are so inclined often invoke an ideology, a generalized message or an essentialized doctrine. Folk music, which may be said to have stemmed from labor and anti-war movements, is an example of such a phenomenon, as is a transatlantic punk movement of the late '70s--bands such as the Clash, Richard Hell and the Voidoids, Television and the Sex Pistols. Both of these groupings arose organically through an interaction between music makers and music listeners; yet both also have lost...