No, I don't mean the
current crop of earnest young beards singing the songs of the harvest.
The digital folk revival can look and sound however it wants, because
it's the revival of a tradition.As mashup man Girl Talk mentions excitedly at the end of Good Copy, Bad Copy, the music industry is getting back to the old way of doing things. He remixes a Brazilian remix of Gnarls Barkley's 'Crazy' and marvels at how far the song has traveled, changing along the way, until the documentary ends on his unrecognizable loop of about a second of the chorus. Despite all the attempts at corporate control of the digital music industry, there seems only one way that the music industry will survive in the age of networked abundance, and that is by going back to how it was done before the big money balls took over.
