John Greenway on Folksong - A Reply

Abstract

Foster responds to John Greenway's essay on folk music (Australian Literary Studies, vol. 2, no. 3), taking issue with Greenway's 'extended arraignment of contemporary protest folksingers ... [and] his proposition that folksong surpasses what we might for the purposes of argument term sophisticated art'.

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Published 1 June 1967 in Volume 3 No. 1. Subjects: Folk music.

Cite as: Foster, John Wilson. ‘John Greenway on Folksong - A Reply.’ Australian Literary Studies, vol. 3, no. 1, 1967, doi: 10.20314/als.616803e132.