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Thread #111493   Message #2352012
Posted By: irishenglish
29-May-08 - 11:01 AM
Thread Name: 'English Country Dances', Please
Subject: RE: 'English Country Dances', Please
WAV-To IE: I'm reluctant to quote in this way, but since you have, MC also said in the BBC doc. made when he got his honour, "English don't know who they are any more."

That has nothing to do with my quote. If anything, my quote is an extension of that. English don't know who they are any more, so here's an album that IS explicitly English, but without puritanical border checkpoints. YOU are the one with the border checkpoints for what you perceive relates to Englishness.I'm sure you must absolutely hate The Imagined Village for that reason. You still have not answered several direct questions I have put to you. Makes me think you can't argue my points, because all you can stick with is some rigid dogma based on an antiquated notion of the country you now call home. Fine, you like the music-great, there's a lot of the people arguing against you on this forum that share that same love, but you are coming across as some moral standard bearer-as if you are saying, you can only enjoy this music the way I say, and not any other. And before you respond to that, I have been to your website, and read your ramblings on music, that's how I can say that.