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Thread #111493   Message #2350256
Posted By: GUEST,Volgadon
27-May-08 - 01:38 PM
Thread Name: 'English Country Dances', Please
Subject: RE: 'English Country Dances', Please
What is eco-travel?

Anyway, apologies, I misread a previous post about travel to Israel.
Still, this sounds like a recipe for pockets of MONOculture.

"Critics often mention cut-off points for English culture, and evolution/change, when it's mainly a case of REPLACEMENT: i.e, if an English person is singing an American song in an American accent they are not performing an aspect of their own English culture/if a Swedish tune is being played at a session of English folkies, one of our many fine English tunes is not being heard."

Do you HAVE to sing something just because it's yours? Culture is not a monolith, it's something broad and general, behind it are people and I think people have every right to sing things which speak to them.