The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #111493   Message #2351906
Posted By: Jack Blandiver
29-May-08 - 08:43 AM
Thread Name: 'English Country Dances', Please
Subject: RE: 'English Country Dances', Please
The erstwhile colonial cultures are great repositories of traditional song; I've any amount of unique renderings of songs such as The Derby Ram collected in Australia, and, as I keep banging on, The Max Hunter Folk Song Collection is the most invaluable on-line resource of English Folk Song there is, in my opinion.

Out of interest, were your folks £10 Whinging Poms, WAV? Maybe this is the source of your current cultural disgruntlements, having been brought up with a halcyon vision of English culture by hapless Émigrés - and back you come only to find it's nothing like how it was described to you! Well, you can take the boy out of the country, but you can't take the country out of the boy, and it seems to me that's exactly what you're trying, and failing, by your own admission, to do. Now, all you got to do is ask yourself why and maybe you'll find it's time to have a good old clear out - a bit of therapeutic de-cluttering as they say - give the heave-ho to all this tired old rhetoric you keep quoting over and over again. You've made yourself a prisoner of your own conclusions, so time for a break-out before you get too institutionalised! Only then might you begin the real process of repatriation, and might just go some way to becoming a true Englishman.