The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #119547   Message #2603850
Posted By: GUEST,glueman
03-Apr-09 - 09:06 AM
Thread Name: 1954 and All That - defining folk music
Subject: RE: 1954 and All That - defining folk music
"As for "fear of change" - yes, I'm terrified of change - I freely admit it."

It would be easy to take the piss out of that response but it's an attitude that runs deeply within some sectors of the folk community and one should recognise that. It is still wrong headed. Nostalgia for a golden age, politically, socially, musically is based on myths and elegies are by and large, mischief.