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User Name	Thread Name	Subject	Posted
Fay	folk song politics (86* d)	folk song politics	12 Apr 03
Folk music/song seems to be heavily linked with politics. The folk club movement was dominated by people with a strong political stance, and many songs rebelling against political movements are labeled 'folk songs'. What has this got to do with the 'traditional' material which was being revived and why/when was it decided that politics and heritage should linked. I'm basically asking why are these two bodies of material, which differ greatly in their style/reason for being(?) are put in the same category of 'folk music'.

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